z-z-ing

Updated: July 14, 2026

She stayed by the window until the clouds turned black in the west; down in the heavy darkness of the garden the crickets began their monotonous z-z-ing, and in the locust-trees the katydids answered each other with a sharp, shrill cry. Then she crept down-stairs and sat outside of Mrs.

Margaret Wade Campbell Deland - John Ward, Preacher