THE CEICKET. INTRODUCTORY, 



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"And Crickets sing at the oven's month, 

 As the blither for the drouth." SHAKSPEBE. 



AN eminent French Entomologist, Eeaumur, has very justly 

 observed, that "it is certainly no fault of Nature's if we do 

 not possess works upon Insects which everybody may read 

 with pleasure." His most amusing, though rather voluminous 

 publication, * Memoires pour servir a 1'Histoire des Insectes,' 

 1734, went far to supply, in his time, the deficiency at which 

 he hints, and in ours, amidst the multitude of familiar books 

 on every subject, it might certainly be supposed that there is 

 no lack of such as would suit and please everybody on this. 



