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delicate skin? No, his oeai i have skins 



as sensitive as his, yet do not dread the open air at all. 



Is the house-building talent the result of his anatomy'? 



Has he any special organ that suggests it 1 ? No: in my 



neighbourhood there are three Miner Crickets who are so 



mur? - uV: Field Cricket in appearance, colour, and 



lif ai the first glance one would take them 



re faithful copies, not one knows how 



^irrow Thr Double-spotted Cricket 



;;!t;ivr r . ^ of grass that are left to rot in damp 



.iitnry Cricket: roams about the dry clods 



irtir.ai up iv the gardener's sps<k-; the Bordeaux Cricket 



? a*r;t"l to make his* way mto our houses, where he 



^iy di-vvi^etly, during AuguM ^nd September, in some 



c<.<:'{. dark ^tH>r, 



Fhfr>- :: no object in continutsg these questions: the 

 answer would always be No, fmttnct never tells us its 

 causes, it tiep^nds so httle on a^ insects stock of tools 

 that no detail of anatomy, nothing in the creature's 

 foitnation, can earplaiu it to us or make us foresee it* 

 These tour similar Crickets, of wfeom only one 



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