Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 215
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,… … digious leaps. They are half an inch or less in tastic shapes, that they become the queerest-look-length, yet some of the relatives of those shown ing insects which nature has produced,in the pictures can jump six feet. If a man, in It is supposed that the enlargement of the backproportion to his…
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