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garden, by boring deep holes in the sloping 

 turf. The new inhabitants stayed some 

 time, and fed and sung; but wandered 

 away by degrees, and were heard at a far- 

 ther distance every morning ; so that it 

 appears that on this emergency they made 

 use of their wings in attempting to return 

 to the spot from which they were taken. 



One of these crickets, when confined in 

 a paper cage and set in the sun, and sup- 

 plied with plants moistened with water, 

 will feed and thrive, and become so merry 

 and loud as to be irksome in the same 

 room where a person is sitting: if the 

 plants are not wetted it will die. 



