"Ouch! ow! ow! ow!"
Why, May, what is the matter?
Anybody would think you had seen a cockroach.
What has she found, John?
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Oh, it is a walking stick!
Why do I call it that?
Look and see.
Does it not look like a stick?
And does it not walk?
Then why is not walking stick a good name for it?
May thinks its legs look like a collection of pine needles, for they are
green and flat on the upper joints.
It is as pretty as it is queer, with its brown body and its green legs.
This is the male walking stick; the female has brown legs. She is brown
all over, just the color of dried leaves, and she is not as slender as
her mate.
Mollie thinks it is the long and slender thorax that makes the walking
stick look so queer.
See its thorax. Its six legs are attached to its thorax, which is as
long and as slender as the abdomen.
John thinks it looks queer because everything about it is so long and
slender.
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Long antennæ, long legs, long thorax, long abdomen--that is Mr. Walking
Stick.
Sir, why do you have such long antennæ? Can you hear and feel and smell
extra well because of them?