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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.)
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heard of, are those thatare dressed in disguise all their lives. One who lives in the blackdirt with patches of white sand in it, is himself black and white,just the color of his home, and can scarcely be seen in it. One of the specter family looks so much like a little stick thatyou would never believe him to be alive unless you saw him run. His picture is on the opposite page. He is long and thin, exactly like a twig, and his six legs are likesmaller twigs. His head looks like a kind of bud in the end, andhis tail—well, his tail looks so much like his head that I could nevertell which was which. He is such an odd-looking object that onehates to touch him, and I saw a gentleman try to catch one with apair of scissors. Instead of catching him, alas ! he cut him quitein two. Before we recovered from our horror, he ran away, thehead end one way and the tail end the other way. I should, there- IN FEATHERS AND FUR. 145 fore, consider that he had two heads and no tail, but the wise men,
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who know more about it, say he has but one. This creature hasfunny names in different places. We used to call him KnittingNeedles. In Brazil he is called the Devils Horse, and by some 10 146 LITTLE FOLKS others the Walking Stick. Being so light and having such longlegs, he can run like the wind, and youll have to be lively if youcatch him. Another family who dress in disguise are called Mantidcz.They imitate dry leaves, and look so exactly like them, that evenwhen they move one can hardly believe they are not dry leavesrustling along in the breeze. It looks funny enough to see a littleleaf walk off. Some look like rose-colored flowers, and others likesmall red fruit. Mr. Gosse tells of a naturalist who saw at his feet somewithered leaves, whose tints pleased his eye, and he attempted totake them up. But to his amazement, they all took to their legsand ran away. He caught one and found it to be an insect. The same gentleman tells about the tricks of a pretty littleWest India fish which

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