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SUMMER 



Is the sound " Katy " or " Katy did " ? or what 

 is said ? Count the notes. Are they at the rate of 

 two hundred per minute? Watch the instrumen- 

 talist till you make sure it is the male who is 

 wooing Katy with his persistent guitar. The male \ 



has no long ovipositors. | 



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Another instrument- 

 alist to hear is the big 

 cicada or "harvest-fly." 

 There is no more 

 characteristic 

 sound of all the 

 summer than his 

 big, quick, start- 

 ling whirr a 

 minute mowing- 

 machine up on the ] 

 limb overhead ! 

 Not so minute 

 either, for the crea- 

 ture is fully two 

 inches long, with 

 bulging eyes and a 

 click to his wings 

 when he flies that can be heard a hundred feet 

 away ! " Dog-days-z-z-z-z-z-z-z " is the song he sings 

 I to me. 



