JUNIOR NATURALIST LEAFLET NO. 3 



LITTLE HERMIT BROTHER, 



Cicada septeyidecitn. 



ANNA BOTSFORD COMSTOCK. 



N far Thibet exists a class of Buddhist monks who 

 are hermits and who dwell in caves. I was told 

 about these strange people by a Senior Nat- 

 uralist, who has spent his life going 

 around the world and finding the coun- 

 tries upon it as easil}^ as you Junior 

 Naturalists find the same countries on 

 the globe in the schoolroom. A real 

 naturalist is never contented with maps 

 of places and pictures of things, but always desires to see the 

 places and things themselves. 



The Senior Naturalist told me that he found Thibet a dreary 

 land inhabited by queer people ; and the hermit monks were the 

 queerest of all. Each one dwelt in his solitary cave, ate very 

 little and worked not at all, but spent his time in thought. 

 Could we read his thoughts we would be none the wiser, since 

 they are only mj^sterious thoughts about mj^sterious things. 



Now it is a surprising fact that we have hermits of similar 

 habits here in America ; only our hermits are a little people who 

 dress in white garb and live in cells underground ; they also eat 

 little and work not at all, and probably meditate upon mysteries. 

 However, the}' are equipped with six legs while the monks of 

 Thibet have only two, a difference of little importance since 

 neither of them travel far from their caves. ***** 



There are places in eight or nine counties in New York State 

 that may surely expect visitors this year. These counties are 

 Livingston, Monroe, Onondaga, Ontario, Wyoming, Yates and 

 those bordering on Cayuga Lake. The connection between these 



