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for any great length, and he was soon captured. 
Upon examination his wings seemed partially 
paralyzed, but otherwise he appeared to be in 
good health and spirits, his hind legs being espe- 
cially lively and snappy. I immediately took the 
insect to my studio, and pinned him through the 
thorax. He was strong enough to pull out the 
pin from the board and jump around the room 
with it in my temporary absence. 
I lost no time in taking his portrait, which 
figured in the illustration to the article on " Foot- 
prints " as " the ungainly victim," I little dream- 
ing when I gave him such a title what a re- 
markable sort of victim he even then was. The 
drawing took me about ten minutes. I then 
left the studio, and was absent precisely fifteen 
minutes. Upon returning I found the grass- 
hopper dead. 
My curiosity was aroused, not only by such a 
rapid demise (for the impaling through the thorax 
is not usually an immediately fatal injury to an 
insect), but especially by some very strange and 
unnatural automatic movements- of the victim 
head protruding and turning from side to side; 
queer expansion of body, as though breathing; 
unusual lifting and other motions of legs, particu- 
larly of hind legs ; the whole demonstration a 
mockery on life. The grasshopper was pinned to 
my drawing-board, and against a piece of news- 
