108 THE CRICKET. 



ground ; and are as well as the perfect in- 

 sects, tigers in their nature, attacking and 

 destroying all they can overcome. 



Dr. Gregory. 



Cricket — The Domestic one. 



This is an harmless, inoffensive, and 

 familiar little insect. It is an inhabit^it of 

 almost every house, and is found particularly 

 about ovens and kitchen chimneys : It 

 wanders about during the whole night, keep- 

 fiig up a continual chirping especially, before 

 rain. It is said to forsake houses infested 

 with the cock-roach. 



The poet Cowper gives the following very 

 pleasing description of this little insect : 



Little inmate, full of mirth, 

 Chirping on my kitchen hearth ; 

 Wheresoe'er be thine abode, 

 Always harbinger of good. 



