Music AND LOVE. 53 



By day, also, the males of our common grass- 

 hoppers or locusts chirrup and call from their 

 grassy retreats, some while at rest, others while 

 winging their way from one point to another, 

 and still others while hovering a few feet above 

 the supposed hiding places of their beloved ones. 



Nor must it be forgotten that this insect cho- 

 rus has for its sole inspiration love. All of 

 nature's objects which can do so, sing when 

 in love. 'Tis the only way they can rid them- 

 selves of that super-abundance of happiness 

 which wells up when the mating passion reigns 

 supreme. The past, with its struggles for shel- 

 ter, food, existence, is forgotten. The one de- 

 sire for possession of another of their kind holds 

 sway. If sound musical or otherwise can 

 call that mate for which they yearn unto them, 

 it shall be done. And so insects trill and call, 

 day in and night out, feeding little, if at all ; the 

 one desire the supreme master of their being. 



As with insects, so with batrachians, birds 

 and mammals. Love, passion, are back of are 

 the chief inspiration of the frogs' spring cho- 

 rus and the migrating birds' warbles, twitters 



