96 NOTICES OF THE GRASSHOPPER. 



are not regarded with aversion, like some of the 

 beetle tribe ; but are looked upon with feelings of 

 forbearance, if not of kindliness, by all who have 

 listened to their song. I have not, therefore, to be- 

 speak your indulgence, while I transcribe from my 

 note-book " the trivial fond records" relative to these 

 insects, 



"Tliat youth and observation copied there." 



The grasshopper is a universal favourite ; 



" He is an evening' reveller, who makes 

 His life an infancy, and sing's his fill ;" 



and the ease of his movements, the extent of his 

 spring, the variety of his colours, and the attractive 

 nature of the objects among which he is found, all 

 tend to increase his popularity. His song and his 

 activity have both been noticed by Hogg, and intro- 

 duced with pleasing effect in one of his minor poems, 

 the Address to a Wild Deer : — 



" Elate on the fern branch the grasshopper sings, 

 And away in the midst of his roimdelay springs." 



Wordsworth has not passed unheeded the 



"jocund voice 

 Of insects chirping out their careless lives 

 On these soft beds of thyme-besprinkled turf." 



But I shall not at present dwell on these poetic 

 sketches ; and as the cricket is an inhabitant of our 



