Insect life; an introduction to nature-study and a guide for teachers, students, and others interested in out-of-door life . ocust slowly sheathes His dagger voice, and creeps awayBeneath the brooding leaves where breathes The zephyr of the dying day:One naked star has waded throughThe purple shallows of the night,And faltering as falls the dewIt drips its misty garden blooms,On tid s of musk,The beetle booms adown the gloomsAnd bumps along the dusk. The katydid is rasping at The silence from the tangled broom :On drunken wings the flitting bat Goes staggering athwart the gloom:The t
Insect life; an introduction to nature-study and a guide for teachers, students, and others interested in out-of-door life . ocust slowly sheathes His dagger voice, and creeps awayBeneath the brooding leaves where breathes The zephyr of the dying day:One naked star has waded throughThe purple shallows of the night,And faltering as falls the dewIt drips its misty garden blooms,On tid s of musk,The beetle booms adown the gloomsAnd bumps along the dusk. The katydid is rasping at The silence from the tangled broom :On drunken wings the flitting bat Goes staggering athwart the gloom:The toadstool bulges through the weeds; And lavishly to left and rightThe fireflies, like golden seeds, Are sown about the night. THE SECOND COLLECTIN(; TRIP, 33 Oer slunibrous blooms,On Hoods of musk,The beetle booms adown the gloomsAnd bumps along the dusk. James Whitcomb Riley* LESSON XII. THE SECOND COLLECTING TRIP, 1. Review carefully the directions on page 28. 2. On this excursion the pupils should collect anytrue insects—that is, those having only six feet—thatthey may find ; but the especial object of the excur-. FiG. II. —Nymph of .l/;?/(Z«(?//7/j,first stage. (After Emerton.)
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