GRASSHOPPERS 



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house-flies and stable-flies. He could have told the 

 boys about the big grasshoppers which they in their 

 excitement had called hopper-grass, but he was not 

 at home. 



About a week after they had scared Mrs. Emerson, 

 Willie was pulling weeds in the garden and he saw 



FIG. 43. "He saw a large number of grasshoppers eating on their 

 sweet corn." 



a large number of grasshoppers eating on their 

 sweet corn. He stopped and sat very still for a long 

 time, watching them. "What bigmouths they have ; 

 I wonder why they have to be so big?" he asked 

 himself. He talked to one of the grasshoppers, 

 saying : "If my mouth was as big as yours according 

 to the size of my body, what a sight I should be. 



