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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 215

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THE SHOE-SHAPED STONE. mmmM§m 748 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS [June, LUDICROUS FORMS OF INSECTS When I first glanced at these photographs, whichwere sent to me by a friend, I thought that he hadbeen carving odd-looking objects to amuse him- could make a standing leap of about four… … self, and that he had concluded to amuse me. But are peculiar in shape, but none are so strangely another look showed that they are greatly en- formed as are those of the tropics, in which the larged pictures of the insects known as tree-hop- upper part of the body, the prothorax, is so pers,…

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