File:Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither (1875) (14597683117).jpg

Identifier: littlefolksinfea00mill (find matches)
Title: Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: (Miller, Harriet (Mann) Mrs.), 1831- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., Dustin, Gilman & co. Cincinnati, Ohio, Queen city publishing co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
LITTLE FOLKS LONG-LEGGED FELLOW THAT CANT WALK. y \ No, indeed—not a step—his legs are too long! That seems a \funny reason^ dont it ? But look at the one in the picture, and seeif you think such tremendous legs as those hind ones—those thatstick up like elbows—could ever be made to walk. You recognizethe creature, Im sure, and you know well enough that it dontwant to walk; it would feel disgraced to have walking suggested.It is the grandest of hoppers, and can get over the ground fasterthan most walkers.
Text Appearing After Image:
The picture is of the variety of Grasshopper called the Wart-biter, because some people think its bite a cure for warts. It showsthe mother of the family arranging the nursery, and carefully de-positing the babies—all safely wrapped up in egg-shells—so thatthe Grasshopper family may not fail next Summer. See what a IN FEATHERS AND FUR. 197 wonderful instrument she has for the purpose. When closed up itis just the sort of a tool with which to bore into the ground toprepare the nurseries, in the first place, and when open it makes asafe and handy sort of tube for the egg to slip down. When shehas ten or twelve—or about that number—placed in one snug room,she will pass on and make another. In that way, being sure thatnot all her babies will be destroyed, even if one of her nurseries isdiscovered and robbed. She will not be satisfied till she has laidabout seventy eggs, and then she will go off into the grass, readyto die when the time comes, and leave her babies for the nextSumme

Note About Images