TWO STRANGE GRASSHOPPERS 



long legs and antennae, swathed together in a sheath. 

 He taught me, too, that this mummy-like creature, fit 

 only to lengthen and shorten itself a little, has for its 

 means of travelling a hernia in the neck, a throbbing 

 blister — an original piece of mechanism which, when I 

 first observed the Decticus, I had never seen used as an 

 aid to progression. 



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