202 BEACH GRASS 



European species, the familiar ''cricket on the 

 hearth." The field-cricket is dark brown or 

 black, stout and robust in appearance and easily 

 discovered. The snowy tree-cricket is pale 

 greenish white in color, slender and delicately 

 formed. It is practically never seen except by 

 those who make diligent search, as it secretes it- 

 self in bushes and vines, and is apt to cease 

 singing if one intrudes too closely on its 

 haunts. 



On a November night the wind switched 

 around from the south to the northeast, blew hard 

 and brought rain. I was awakened by the rain 

 in my face and the groaning of a tree trunk 

 rubbing against the roof of the lean-to. The 

 sound was so human that I reached out in the 

 darkness to discover if by any chance some one 

 had come to the other bed beside me. 



The soft soughing of the wind in the pines, the 

 rustling of the leaves of the hard woods as their 

 branches sway in the breeze, or the roaring of a 

 gale through the forest are all sounds that give 

 pleasure. Especially do I enjoy the sound of the 

 surf breaking on the beach when an easterly wind 



