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"Come on, Harry!" called Bert. "We'll get some of those grasshoppers." He started down the stairs leading from the deck, intending to go ashore, but his mother touched him on the arm, and said, in a low voice: "Why don't you ask that boy to come on board?" "Why?" asked Bert. "Well, I was just going to give you children some of the corn muffins Dinah has just baked, and perhaps Will would like "
I note the feeling the more readily as it is the contrary of what I have read of in the experience of others. Day and night, above the roar of the train, our ears were kept busy with the incessant chirp of grasshoppers a noise like the winding up of countless clocks and watches, which began after a while to seem proper to that land.
They eat insects that fly by night and are classed among our most useful birds. Quails are almost unequalled as weed-destroyers. Throughout the fall and winter they spend the time destroying weed seeds. In summer they eat Colorado potato beetles, chinch-bugs, cotton boll-weevils, squash-beetles, grasshoppers and cutworms.
To these observations I may add, on the high authority of Azara, that the Carrancha feeds on worms, shells, slugs, grasshoppers, and frogs; that it destroys young lambs by tearing the umbilical cord; and that it pursues the Gallinazo, till that bird is compelled to vomit up the carrion it may have recently gorged.
It was about eleven in the forenoon, I think, that Shalah dropped his easy swing and grew circumspect. The sun was very hot, and the noon silence lay dead on the woodlands. Scarcely a leaf stirred, and the only sounds were the twittering grasshoppers and the drone of flies. But Shalah found food for thought. Again and again he became rigid, and then laid an ear to the ground.
He took a tour round the paddock, and found a racecourse duly laid out in a suitable place, with a few fellows training their bits of stuff for a coming event. Others were duck-shooting in the swamps, and others after turkeys on the plains, whilst a few diverted themselves by coursing rabbits on the sand-hills. And as for bullocks and horses why, they were as grasshoppers for multitude.
In Germany he is called the nine-killer, from the belief that he kills and sticks upon thorns nine grasshoppers a day. To make my portrait of the shrike more complete, I will add another trait of his described by an acute observer who writes me from western New York.
Reine maintained her statue-like pose as long as the young man's footsteps resounded on the stony paths; but when they died gradually away in the distance, when nothing could be heard save the monotonous trill of the grasshoppers basking in the sun, she threw herself down on the green heap of rubbish; she covered her face with her hands and gave way to a passionate outburst of tears and sobs.
The men that were tall as cedars, and strong as the oaks, frighted them: they were in their own sight, when compared with these high ones, but as grasshoppers. Besides, together with these, they had high walls, walls as high as heaven; and these walls were of purpose to keep Israel out of his possession.
They are jist like grasshoppers; they dance and sing all summer, and when winter comes they have nothin provided for it, and lay down and die. They require some one to see arter them. Now, we deal in black niggers only, but the Blue Noses sell their own species they trade in white slaves.
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