The Insect Folk

Dragon-flies, katydids, the funny back-swimmers and little Mrs. Shore Bug — Morley walks children through the insect world by asking them to go and LOOK: “books will help you, but you must watch, too.”

The Old Cockroaches

2 pages in this part of The Insect Folk.

The Old Cockroaches

CHILDREN, here is a It was one of the to live on the earth; before people, and they cockroach. first insects that came cockroaches were…

The Old Cockroaches: England

When they landed from their hot land of Asia in cold England, they must have wondered what was to become of them. Many of them no doubt…

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