Cicada, Harvcst-Flv, "Locust" 



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The seventeen-year locust is a Methuselah 

 among insects. It lives seventeen years under 

 ground, where Methuselah did not go until he quit 

 living. But this locust is seldom seen, while the 

 other varieties are with us every summer. The 

 dried shells of the pupa? have been the playthings 



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of children ever since this country was inhabited 

 by white people and no doubt little Indian children 

 played with them before the white people came. 

 Probably the red youngsters sat around and 

 watched the Cicada come out of their hole, as in 

 Fig. 265, to creep up the trunk of a tree, fasten 



