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Very slender limbs, with bends like a grasshopper's; sits a great deal, I presume; looks as if he might straighten them out all of a sudden, and jump instead of walking. Wears goggles very commonly; says it rests his eyes, which he strains in looking at very small objects. Voice has a dry creak, as if made by some small piece of mechanism that wanted oiling.
Was there no sound in the air, besides the gentle rustling of the trees and the grasshopper's merry chirp? Hark! Something very faint and distant, not unlike the murmuring in a sea-shell. Now it grew louder, fainter now, and now it altogether died away. Presently, it came again, subsided, came once more, grew louder, fainter swelled into a roar. It was on the road, and varied with its windings.
The grasshopper's head is so placed that, while it is at the front of its body, the mouth is directly on the under side of its head, while the eyes are at the top of the front of its face. Under these circumstances it cannot see what is going into its mouth, and this makes an interesting variation of conditions to which it must adapt itself.
It is the Black Ant who will come and creep from your feet up to your head. Say nothing, and keep quiet, won't you, Pivi? 'Certainly, kind lady, said Pivi, 'I will lie as still as can be. 'Next will come the big Red Ant you know him? 'Yes, I know him, with his feet like a grasshopper's. 'He will walk over your body up to your head. Then you must shake all your body. Do you understand, Pivi?
After that, our liking for him became quite emphatic. Smith's judgments upon the Grasshopper's conduct, but we did approve of his building her chimney, because it saved us from putting our hands in our own pockets again. In the brown dusk of the September evening, Miss Lydia, watching her landlord roll past in his carriage, gave him a friendly nod. "He's nice," she said, "and so good-looking!"
How does that thing go? Mottram took up the tune. 'Too slow by half. You miss the note of gratitude, said Hummil. 'It ought to go to the "Grasshopper's Polka," this way. And he chanted, prestissimo, 'Glory to thee, my God, this night. For all the blessings of the light. That shows we really feel our blessings. How does it go on?
Not only have these soft jaws joined together, but, because they have become so much elongated when not in use, they must be coiled up like a watch spring and laid between two hairy lip-like processes which correspond in reality to the two finger-like feelers of the grasshopper's hind lips.
"I say, Gypsy, if you cut off a grasshopper's wings, and frow him in a milk-pan, what would he do?" remarked Winnie, inclining to metaphysics, as was Winnie's custom when he wasn't wanted. Gypsy took several severe stitches, and made no answer. "Gypsy if somebody builded a fire inside of me and made steam, couldn't I draw a train of cars?" "Look here Gyp., when a cat eats up a mouse "
"True; your limbs are like a grasshopper's." "Oh! you mean my legs but my arms...." "Your arms must be like your legs. But, sitting as you were just now, I could see only your head, which is better. So! one has to be accountable for looking at you? Mademoiselle feels herself affronted if any one stares at her! I will remember this in future.
It was now between four and five in the afternoon. The slant rays of the sun struck them and turned them mother-of-pearl. An old man lifted a dry, thin voice like a grasshopper's. "Once I went to Niagara, and there was a balloon ascension.
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