82 FARM SPIES 



It would be terrible, and everybody would be afraid 

 of me. I tell you what people would say when they 

 looked at me ; they would say, ' That boy is a 

 frightful looking thing ; I always thought that Frank 

 Stevens's bulldog had an ugly mug, but it is nothing 

 to that of Willie Blake/ he, he, he," he laughed. 



Just then he saw something that took his attention 

 from that grasshopper ; at the edge of the garden 



he saw another grass- 

 hopper sitting quietly 

 with its abdomen, or 

 rear half of the body, 

 h alfway in the ground. 

 F IG . 44. _ -He is stuck fast in the He crept away quietly 



and called Freddie, say- 

 ing, " Freddie, .come here and look what happened 

 to one of the grasshoppers." 



Freddie came and they both looked. "He is 

 stuck fast in the ground, Freddie," said Willie. 



"Why, Freddie, he surely is; poor old long-legs, 

 I wonder how that happened." 



Just then their father came to the house and the 

 boys called him. He came, and after taking a good 

 look, said, "What is the matter with that grass- 

 hopper do you think?" 



"We do not know," Freddie answered. "The 

 poor thing is stuck in a hole there, but how did he 

 get in? Do you suppose that it is an ant-hole?" 



