. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers . ding scale and a high crescendo,and may be imitated by means of that noisy toy withwhich most boys are familiar, and which is called a lo-cust. As we used to make it, it was composed of thetip of a bottle neck, or a small tin spice-box with thebottom removed, having a piece of kid tightly stretched THE TOADS BAGPIPE 53 across its opening. A doubled horse-hair was knottedto the centre of this small drum-head, and the slip-loopat its other end passed round the tip of a small smoothstick, on which a groove wa
. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers . ding scale and a high crescendo,and may be imitated by means of that noisy toy withwhich most boys are familiar, and which is called a lo-cust. As we used to make it, it was composed of thetip of a bottle neck, or a small tin spice-box with thebottom removed, having a piece of kid tightly stretched THE TOADS BAGPIPE 53 across its opening. A doubled horse-hair was knottedto the centre of this small drum-head, and the slip-loopat its other end passed round the tip of a small smoothstick, on which a groove was made to receive it. Whenthis groove was wet and the drum revolved in the airthe locust spoke for itself, to the joy of the smallboy even if to the nuisance of every one else. If thisdrum be held firmly in one hand and the stick in theother—the horse-hair being very tightly drawn—a quicktwist of the handle, accompanied with a tighter pull onthe hair will almost exactly re- produce the frog song in question. I hope some day to decoy and identify my mysterious frog by this device,.
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