92 LIFE IN THE INSECT WORLD. 



they left the house, and never afterward returned 

 to it. 



Although these little creatures, like ourselves, 

 love a warm fire in the cold winter season, yet 

 as soon as summer comes with its soft airs and 

 warm sunshine, they prefer fields and gardens, 

 where, in the bushes, among rubbish, or in the 

 cracks made in the ground by dry weather, they 

 will chirp merrily enough ; but on the approach 

 of winter they return to their old retreat in the 

 wall. 



There are several kinds of crickets : those 

 about which I have been telling you are called 

 House Crickets. 



There is also the Field Cricket, which is 

 of a beautiful green color, and lives in a hole 

 made in the ground, about five or six inches in 

 depth. In passing by a field on a warm sum- 

 mer evening, you may sometimes see great 

 numbers of these pretty little insects standing at 

 the entrance of their holes, and singing their 

 evening song ; but it is almost impossible to get 

 near enough to examine them, for as soon as 

 they observe you, or hear the sound of your 

 footsteps, their song ceases, and they quickly 

 disappear under the ground. 



