. Fairy roads to Science-Town . and canopies. And here, my dears, on this stem is a prettylady-bug or lady-bird, and although she issuch a little lady she has relatives as muchas seven inches in length and many who havehorns and wear armour. I suppose there is astory about why this one always chooses towear polka-dots. May be I shall find it foryou some day. If we look carefully among the leaves we[6ol THE LITTLE MEASURING MAN may find a grasshoppers cousin,—one who iswaiting for his wings to grow, and for hissongs to be ready. These grasshoppers cou-sins live in the trees and have gauzy green
. Fairy roads to Science-Town . and canopies. And here, my dears, on this stem is a prettylady-bug or lady-bird, and although she issuch a little lady she has relatives as muchas seven inches in length and many who havehorns and wear armour. I suppose there is astory about why this one always chooses towear polka-dots. May be I shall find it foryou some day. If we look carefully among the leaves we[6ol THE LITTLE MEASURING MAN may find a grasshoppers cousin,—one who iswaiting for his wings to grow, and for hissongs to be ready. These grasshoppers cou-sins live in the trees and have gauzy greenwings which are veined like leaves, and theirlong slender legs are like the stems of leaves,and the songs they sing are ballads about what^Katy-did. ^Oh, yes, my dears, everything has its story;and there are great scholars who are so inter-ested in some of these queer little people as tohave rooms fitted up for them to live in wherethey may study their ways and learn their life-stories. [6r] A >—^i. / s -•■ r ! / \l. CHAPTER V THE CAPTAINS STORY ABOUTCRABS When in motion the crab moves sideways, usingthe legs of one side to pull with and those of theother side to push with As all the legs do notmove at the same time, a continuous and uniformmotion is kept up. Augusta Foote Arnold. THE CAPTAINS STORY ABOUTCRABS HELLO, little Skipper! Got a Fiddlerin your hamper, have ye? Well,crabs be about as queer folk as ever I struck inall my travels. Some of em live on land, andsome of em in water; and some aint contentw^ith one element but must have both. Some-times Ive thought they were ugly, then againthey are mighty pretty. Anyhow, they bearwatching and one can learn a heap from evena cute little Fiddler; and, the fact is, the wholecrab tribe are a mighty interesting lot. The speaker—Captain Lyons—had fol-lowed the sea since his youth, and though nowtoo old to sail he loved it still, and loved every-thing that came out of it or that crept upon itssandy beaches, and he was
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