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Friend Cicada

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May says she wishes that locust would keep quiet.

It makes her warmer than ever to hear him carrying on so this hot day.

John says it is the weather that is warm, not the song of the locust.

And yet, locusts generally sing during the hottest part of the summer, so that we have learned to associate them with warm weather.

Since we must liscry, I wish we could Ah, that is a wish ten to its shrill outalso see it. soon gratified! Here John's pocket. a locust. horned grasshoppers comes one out of John says it is not Ah, yes, the shortare the real locusts, and this fellow has somehow got the name.

But it is not a locust.

It is also called the dog-day harvest fly, but it is not a fly, though it looks considerably like one.

Really, you know, it is a - bug!

Yes, it belongs to the bug order.

Its true name is cicada, and its shrill midsummer song has been famous from the beginning of time.

It looks like an enormous parts are the mouth parts fly, but its mouth of the bug, and in other respects it rebers of the bug order, when it What glassy wings! sembles the memis examined closely.

Let us spread them out carefully. Four of them it has.

The cicada, you see, has no wing covers. Nor are its