100 LIFE IN THE INSECT WORLD. 



string to the other, when we were so distressed 

 about the poor thing that Mary cried, and we 

 both begged him to. give it to us 5 but he only 

 laughed at us, and said he intended to have a 

 great deal of sport with it yet. We were on 

 our way to a candy store, and I had some money 

 in my hand, which I offered him, and he then 

 gave us the locust. 



Mary. Yes, and it was so pretty that I 

 should have been very glad to keep it, but I 

 only held it a minute, while I stroked and patted 

 it, and then opened my hand, and away it flew, 

 glad enough to get off. 



Aunt M. You have good cause to remem- 

 ber the locusts, my dear children ; and, I have 

 no doubt, the satisfaction of setting the poor in- 

 sect at liberty was far sweeter than any thing 

 your money could have bought you. The grati- 

 fication of eating candy would soon have been 

 over, but the recollection of a benevolent action 

 will be sweet for ever. 



The kind of locusts of which you have spoken 

 may be seen every summer ; but they appear 

 only in small numbers, and are much less re- 

 markable than those of which I am about to 



