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Every kind of food defiling, 

 And most disagreeably smelling, 

 Greedy gluttons, eating all things, 

 Hiding always in the daytime, 

 Hating daylight, hating sunshine, 

 Up and eating in the nighttime. 

 Their antennae long and tapering, 

 Long and thin, and very threadlike, 

 Very, very manjjoiuted ; 

 Head bent down beneath the thorax ; 

 Fore wings large, and tough and leathery. 

 Folding over one another. 

 Folding over both the hind wings ; 

 These ai'e folded, too, beneath them, 

 And all lying on the body : 

 Their legs all alike and simple, 

 Formed for running, not for leaping ; 

 And their feet are all fivejointed. 

 Such are Cocla'oaches, Blattina. 



All the rest are merrv creatures, 

 Merry, leaping, chirping creatures. 

 Locusts, Grasshoppers and Crickets, 

 Loudly singing, meny chirping, 

 Bright creations for the poet 

 To adorn his rural song with. 

 Crickets, fii'st, or Achetina, 

 Lead a merry life nocturnal. 

 And, like nightingales so wakeful, 



