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Updated: May 20, 2025
So they learned that the sloop had been known as the Cicade, which Jack knew to mean a locust and that her home port was in the Bahamas, hot-bed of the smuggler league, Bimini, in fact, being its chief port of departure. "What're we goin' to do with this chap?" Perk was asking. "We don't want him to give us the slip, since he's the on'y prisoner we got, do we, partner?"
"Just step into my pouch, and I'll hop you down to the water-hole in less time than it takes a locust to shrill." Timidly and carefully, Dot did the Kangaroo's bidding, and found herself in the cosiest, softest little bag imaginable. The Kangaroo seemed overjoyed when Dot was comfortably settled in her pouch.
The Capitol clock was telling five when Haward entered the garden by the Nicholson Street gate. There had arisen a zephyr of the evening, to loosen the yellow locust leaves and send them down upon the path, to lay cool fingers upon his forehead that burned, and to whisper low at his ear.
Oh, blessed thought! he will have the right to keep her rested and happy, and in a realm of joy. "Oh, no," she returns. "Why, the walk has not seemed long." The surprise in her voice is enchanting. Is any walk ever too long for love? Is any day too long, even all of life? The crickets and peeps come out; a locust drones his slow tune. The sun has dropped down.
Harvey took from a shelf several large pictures of insects, and laying one on the table, asked his son what he thought it was. "It looks like a large grasshopper," said John. "It is the locust of the East," replied his father. "These locusts are shaped almost exactly like the long-winged grasshoppers that fly about our fields; but they are two or three times larger.
Waugh. And a very pleasant country neighborhood they formed these three young families of Dell-Delight, Locust Hill and the villa. Two other important events occurred in their social circle first, poor harmless Fanny passed smilingly to her heavenly home, and all thought it very well.
There was only one thing snappier than he on the grass by the lake shore that morning, and that was the Snapping Turtle. Presently a Locust came along and turned on his buzzing hum right in Glummie's ear. Then Glummie was furious, raised his head and struck at the Locust. Now the Locust was a tease, and this pleased him immensely.
Considering the size of the birds, their nests are quite small, not so large as those of the brown thrashers, though the cup is deeper and the architecture more compact and elaborate. A friend describes a nest which he found on a locust tree about sixteen feet from the ground. It was made mostly of dry grass and locust blossoms, with here and there a piece of twine braided into the structure.
The tree was a low one, of the locust or pseud-acacia family, and covered all over with great thorny spikes, like all trees of that tribe. Francois paid no attention to this; but, keeping under shelter of the underwood, he crept forward until within shot. Then raising his gun, he took aim, and pulling trigger, brought the bird fluttering down through the branches.
It occurred to the writer that this would make a good bedtime story and the little song, a lullaby, for it went on and on with pleasing variation. "Not far away Mahu, the locust, was sitting in a bush, and he was singing too, for he was getting pretty dusty and the weather was very hot, and so he, too, was praying for rain. He has a very nice song for rain, and it goes this way.
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