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Now what strange-looking little creature are you?
John says it looks like a grasshopper, only it has no wings and its body
is not that of a grasshopper.
May says it looks like a cricket, only it has the long legs of a
grasshopper.
It is called the cricket-like grasshopper, and it is partly like a
cricket, as you see, and partly like a grasshopper.
It is a funny little fellow that lives around in dark corners, usually
in the woods.
Do see those long, spiny legs!
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How he _can_ jump.
He has strong, short, sharp spines on the femurs and on the tibias.
He has spines on all his legs, and what long feet he has!
Yes, Nell, his antennæ are longer than anything else about him. I
should think they would be in his way.
He has no wings at all, and he never will have any.
He has two pairs of feelers in front of his mouth that show very
plainly. They show more plainly than the mouth parts of the grasshopper,
though they are quite like them.
Yes, Ned, they are larger than the mouth parts of the grasshopper.
There is another little fellow very similar to the cricket-like
grasshopper.
It has no wings, and the top of the thorax is like a broad shield.
It is called the shield-backed grasshopper.
See if you can find one of them.
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