Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 626
angethat creatures with eyes made expressly for thedaylight, should wish to imitate the habits of batsand cats and owls, whose eyes are specially adaptedto seeing things at night. A GRASSHOPPERS FIDDLE We lay ninety-nine eggs : if we laid one hun-dred we should devastate the earth. It is a… … saw ten acres of corn entirely eaten between tenoclock Saturday morning and four oclock Sun-day afternoon, and who caught ninety-eight grass-hoppers with one sweep of his hand, must havethought the hundredth egg was hatched at last.But the hum of the vast swarms was soon lostto the northward. Then…
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