36 A NATURE STUDY LESSON ON THE GRASSHOPPER. 



Tr. "Thank you, Jim, I didn't expect such good luck as to 

 get eggs the first day. You may put these into the empty chalk 

 box, and we will call it the incubator. It will be a very interest- 

 ing box as the days go by." 



Carl. "I got a lot off the corn leaves as I came through the 

 field. They are the common kind with red legs, and not very 

 big." 



Tr. "I am going to keep these grasshoppers here all day, if I 

 can make them comfortable. What can I do for them, John?" 



John. "They want something to eat, I guess." 



Alice. "Maybe they're thirsty." 



Tr. "What would you suggest to feed them with, Arthur?" 



Arthur. "They'll eat corn, or wheat or just anything green, I 

 guess." 



Tr. ''Jim, you may go out and find something to feed the an- 

 imals." 



He goes and soon returns with a cabbage leaf dripping wet. 



"I thought I might as well water 'em at the same time," he ex- 

 plains. 



The leaf is poked in through the narrow door, and the children 

 come up close to see the result. After a moment the insects be- 

 gin to eat. 



Tr. "I wish you would find out all you can in the next minute 

 or two. The sharpest eyes will see the most, of course, let's see 

 whose they are." 



Time being called, the responses come thick and fast. The 

 only rule is: "Don't interrupt any one who is speaking." 



Carl. "Don't they work their mouths funny!" 



Tr. "How, Carl?" 



Carl. "Why, they chew up and down and sidewise all at once." 



Mary. "And they have funny little fingers at the corners ot 

 their mouths." 



Jim. "This one is eatin' right on the edge of the leaf." 



Tom. "And he sticks his toes in to keep from falling off." 



Alice. "They all nod their heads while they eat." 



John. "They swell out their bodies about once a second. Is 

 that the way they breathe, do you s'pose?" 



Tr. "Watch them awhile, John, and think it over." 



Ellen. "They have long horns on their heads, and they wave 

 them up and down. Sometimes they lay them on the leaf." 



Otto. "They have sharp teeth." 



Arthur. "Yes, or they couldn't cut it off so clean and smooth, 

 could they?" 



