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grasshopper eggs so that this would be easier," said 

 Freddie. 



"So do I," Willie agreed. 



With short days and daily school-work, time 

 passed rapidly and they might have forgotten about 

 their eggs in the cages, but one balmy morning their 

 attention was attracted by the high notes of & Ken- 

 tucky cardinal. " Cheo-cheo-cheo-cheo," he repeated 

 over and over from his high perch in the tree-tops, 

 and it filled the boys with a longing to be out-doors. 

 They were sure that spring had come and that 

 they might expect their grasshopper eggs to hatch 

 at any moment. This was on the morning of March 

 20, and being Saturday and no school, they had a 

 chance to see what they had been waiting for so 

 long. That day they saw many young grasshoppers 

 come out from the eggs and sit wondering at the 

 great world about them. 



The boys put into the tumbler whatever green 

 vegetation they could find, and in a day or two they 

 all began to feed. The tiny little insects resembled 

 the full-grown grasshoppers except that they had 

 no wings. For a period of twelve days they did not 

 change except that they grew larger. 



"This subject is getting to be so dry that it is 

 no longer interesting. They just eat and grow a 

 little and that is all," Willie said. 



On the thirteenth morning after hatching some- 



