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Updated: May 15, 2025
However, the cream went far to mend even that. The back door was open for the heat; and the hill-side could be seen through the doorway and part of the soft green meadow slope; and the grasshopper's song and the bell tinkle were not bad music. "And who was that came with you, dear?" Mrs. Bartlett asked as they sat at table. "With me? Did you see me come?" "Surely. I was in the garden.
Miss Lydia may have been vulgar, but her vulgarity did not save her from terror. When Mary drove past the little house, the Grasshopper's heart was in her mouth! Would Johnny's mother stop? or would Mrs. Robertson go by?
He attempted to scramble over the fence surrounding the pen and had just reached the top rail when the old sow, in whom fear at the sudden appearance of the Grasshopper's owner had given way to wrath at his invasion, suddenly charged at him. She caught him, just as he was striving to maintain his balance, and the unlucky inventor for the second time that day was hurled to the ground.
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?
Now there was a great monster named the Afang, that lived in a big bog, hidden among the high hills and inside of a dark, rough forest. This ugly creature had an iron-clad back and a long tail that could wrap itself around a mountain. It had four front legs, with big knees that were bent up like a grasshopper's, but were covered with scales like armor.
The poetry of earth is never dead; When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead: That is the grasshopper's. Poems, by John Keats, p. 93. The strong rains, which sometimes come down in summer-time, are a noble interruption to the drought and indolence of hot weather.
"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.
The steady swing of the grasshopper's song like the wavering hum of a telegraph pole pitched in a high, shrill key came through the hot air on all sides, until it seemed to spring from the ground in answer to the heat-rays that beat upon it a response from the great dusty parched crust to the ceaseless throb of the heat-waves pulsing and splashing upon it, like the ripple and rattle of shingle stones at the rush of retreating tides.
"I have some very nice salve, that a gentleman and his boy gave me when their automobile ran over me, and it cured my sore toe, so I think it will cure your left hind leg." Then he put some salve on the grasshopper's leg, and in a little while it was much better. "Now we must travel on again, to seek our fortune," said Uncle Wiggily. "Come, Percival."
Then he gave an order to a friend of his, an artist, to paint scenery, with Fuji yama and cranes flying in the air, and a crimson sun shining through the bamboo, and a red moon rising over the waves, and golden clouds and tortoises, and the Sumiyoshi couple, and the grasshopper's picnic, and the Procession of Lord Long-legs, and such like.
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