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A Queer Fellow

WHAT do you suppose is in this box?

Little Nell may open it.

There, out he comes - slowly, as though he were looking around and thinking about it.

May says, "Hello, Mr. Walking Stick, you here again?"

Ho! ho! is it Mr. Walking Stick?

You look again.

Mollie thinks, if she were going to name it, she would call it Mr.

Walking Threads.

Yes, it is more slender than even the walking stick. 1 11 What is that, John? You thought insects had six legs, and this has only four?

Now, here is something for us to think about.

Ned says it has six long threads that might be legs, but it does not walk on the two front ones.

It seems to use them as antennæ.

Ned says those front ones look to him to be jointed just like the others, and he thinks they are legs.

Mollie says they have no little feet like the others, Land she thinks they are antennæ.

All, having feelers that look Well, well, what are we to do? Think of its like legs or legs that look like feelers, so that you cannot tell which they are!

Now it is beginning to move, and - Oh, ho, that long part in front is not its head!

See, it separates into two what? - Surely, two front legs.

See, they were folded up, somewhat like the front legs of the mantis, only these could fold close together, being threadlike.