LITTLE FOLKS 
LONG-LEGGED FELLOW THAT CAN'T WALK. 
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No, indeed — not a step — his legs are too long ! That seems a \ 
funny reason^ don't it ? But look at the one in the picture, and see 
if you think such tremendous legs as those hind ones — those that 
stick up like elbows — could ever be made to walk. You recognize 
the creature, I'm sure, and you know well enough that it don't 
want to walk ; it would feel disgraced to have walking suggested. 
It is the grandest of hoppers, and can get over the ground faster 
than most walkers. 
The picture is of the variety of Grasshopper called the Wart- 
biter, because some people think its bite a cure for warts. It shows 
the mother of the family arranging the nursery, and carefully de- 
positing the babies — all safely wrapped up in egg-shells — so that 
the Grasshopper family may not fail next Summer. See what a 
