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The Grasshoppers, so well known to all fishermen, and, 

 as one author remarks, associated with the brightest of 

 green pastures and sunshiny days, are divided into two 

 families the Locustidce, of which we believe there are 

 many species, and the Grillidoe, of which the Common 

 Cricket (Gryllus domesticus) and the equally familiar Cock- 

 roach (Blatta) are examples. 



The so-called singing of these insects is caused by the 

 rubbing together of the talc-like substance at the base of 

 the wing-cases, and this only occurs in the males. 



The American editor of " The Complete Angler " says, 

 in a note to Chap. V. : " Dipping for trout with the grass- 

 hopper, the grass-beetle, the cricket, &c., over a running 

 stream is the nearest imitation, as it was the original, of 

 fly-fishing. Many an ' attic minstrel ' have I, when a boy, 

 made to seduce the shy, speckled, shining beauties from 

 their haunts ; but no artificial imitation have I ever suc- 

 ceeded with, though the very counterfeit of life the trout 

 will not take them." 



