16 WAYS OF THE SIX-FOOTED 



poets that have sung Nature's melodies in America. 

 His sensitiveness to all out-of-door life, and his keen 

 eyes, unto which not only the poetry but the truth of 

 the fields and woods are revealed, make him a special 

 delight to naturalists. They have to make no mental 

 reservations when reading his poems. Elizabeth Akers 

 was another satisfactory naturalist poet, and she too 

 has noted this roadside grasshopper. She says : — 



" The flying grasshopper clacked his wings 

 Like castanets gayly beating." 



Correlated with love singing must also be love listen- 

 ing. While many insects have the chordotonal or true 

 hearing organs inside the body, only a few have these 

 connected with what we would, at first sight, call ears ; 

 and it is interesting to note the odd places in which 

 these ears are situated. The grasshoppers which have 

 been described have their ears placed on each side of 

 the body on the segment behind the one to which the 

 hind legs are attached. These little ears may be seen 

 with the naked eye if the insect's wings be lifted out of 

 the way ; in appearance they are nearly circular disks. 

 The first thought is, " Of course, since these ears were 

 developed to hear love songs, they would naturally be 

 nearer the heart than our own." Unfortunately for 

 this theory an insect's anatomy is not arranged like 



