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" In our family the females not only have no 

 voices, but no way of making any sound at all, 

 and so we are allowed to sing to them all the 

 season to keep their spirits up. 



" We are a very revengeful family, and if any 

 House Person kills one of our kin, Wabeno shows 

 us the offender, and, biding our time, we work our 

 way into his house and, with our sharp scissor 

 jaws, cut his best clothes to strips. We are very 

 strict, too, among ourselves, and if one of our 

 children or our mates disobey, we immediately 

 eat up the offender, and there Is an end of the 

 matter without discussion. Yet, if people are 

 good to us, we not only do them no harm, but 

 soothe them with our songs and coax them to sit 

 and rest by the fire and see the Dream Fox's 

 picture-book. 



" I have a big cousin living in foreign countries 

 who loves House People so well that he always 

 lives in houses, and some people like his song and 

 keep these Crickets in cages like song birds, 

 cri-cri-cri ! " 



" What are you, and where are you trying to 

 go?" asked Anne of a little Moth that was striv- 

 ing to crawl under one of the plaits of her tartan- 

 plaid skirt. " You are very small and not a bit 

 pretty. Are you any relation of the Moon Moth 



