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Ckada. 



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as t* toupee the Cicada ever ate, <** Every 



?tikr o! tiic soil is familiar with tfc* gft of 



whkfj he turns over with bis ftfwrtfe ^w 

 -p the o!twrees at rhe approach o< c*i<) ^g*r. 

 thousanfJ ti?ne> iif ra^ seen die gmb k**t *^ ^a^n 

 rK H -..iv.?h a tound b*.>i* of its own makitif. |:jft-*W% ** 

 .. T /hr iu own iack, take off its skin, 



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-; v r f ri hie is ? .tlaudcr. The Cicada is no beggar* 

 thc--j it is tri-nf thiit- he demands a good deal of attcn- 

 i-ioi] from h'v o"ighhors. Every sucnmer he. comes and 

 :^Uc \ri hl.s hundrctl:* outside my door, amid the 

 Kreeiu-rv ^ rwo tail -plane-trees; and here, from wn- 

 T i^ a* *nstr. IK .opt.ures my Ixad wtth the rasping of 

 hk harsh wu&ic. Thb deafening concert, tlm incessant 

 rart!a and dnimniing, makes all thought impossible. 



it k tn*, too, ttet there are soioetutie* dealings 

 between the Cicada and the Ant; but they are exactly 

 the oppcmte <rf thm* dcs^ibed in tile fabk. The CicwU 

 i atver 4epeadent on- others for his Uvkig, At no 

 dots he 9> ctpying famine at the <ioor^ of the Ani-h&k, 



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