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garden, by boring deep holes in the sloping 

 turf. The new inhabitants stayed some 

 time, and fed and sung; but wandered 

 away by degrees, and were heard at a far- 

 ther distance every morning ; so that i 

 appears that on this emergency they made 

 use of their wings in attempting to return 

 to the spot from which they were taken. 



One of these crickets, when confined in 

 a paper cage and set in the sun, and sup- 

 plied with plants moistened with water, 

 will feed and thrive, and become so merry 

 and loud as to be irksome in the same 

 room where a person is sitting: if the 

 plants are not wetted it will die. 



