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THE CRICKET. INTKODUCTOEY. 



"And Crickets sing at the oven's mouth, 

 As the blither for the drouth." SHAKSPERE. 



AN eminent French Entomologist, Reaumur, lias very justly 

 observed, that " it is certainly no fault of Nature's if we do not 

 possess works upon Insects which everybody may read with 

 pleasure." His most amusing, though rather voluminous 

 publication, 'Menioires pour servir a THistoire des Insectes,' 

 1734, went far to supply, in his time, the deficiency at which 

 he hints, and in ours, amidst the multitude of familiar books 

 on every subject, it might certainly be supposed that there is 

 no lack of such as would suit and please everybody on this. 



