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upon your study table a whole 

 museum of living curiosities suf- 

 ficient to beguile the entire after- 

 noon. 



Open the netted folds care- 

 fully. Here are queer green 

 triangular tree-hoppers, 

 looking like animated dock- 

 seeds ; gauzy lace-winged 

 flies with eyes like sap- 

 phires and rainbow gleams in 

 their transparent pale-green wings 

 a very fairy of an insect, a delight to the 

 eye if not to the nostril. Here a slender 

 spanworm measures off the meshes, and now 

 emerges a brilliant orange -colored beetle, 

 with a black cross on its back ; and what a 

 tribe of grasshoppers of every age 

 and color, from the brown "high- 

 elbowed grig," so generous with 

 its molasses, to the pale-green 



