The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-10

such exchange of courtesies and garments
In the grasshopner world We know how
ii feels to wear a coat that is mach 90
small. IL Is uncomfor table. We want TO
hide away from the others and be misera-
bic. So docs the little gras hopper. he
DO sn't know where his next suit Of Clothes
is o Gene from He has been too busy eat
ing to n ink + The future. He hides away
under a grass blade moplng and uncomfor-
table. Suddenly he b gins to feel lreer, but
weak He can only squirm feebly, and
blindly push and wrisge this way and
that He lifts his head, aud IL feels light
and cool as ~ he had his hair cut very,
very short. Then the awful weakness
GENES again. Woe unto our little grasshop-
per If a toad o. inseet-sating bird comes
along while he is III this sorry plight. At
ter white he wakes and rubs his back
gingeily with his hind 7 g. finds that he
is all there forgeis everything else and
falls 10 eating
On the grass blade where he chung so
long and so he'p'essly there Is a bit of
something, fragile and almost transpal EN-
but hollow. There are The six legs, the
large eyes and he II re body, all empty.
The gTasshopper is away Gaping n the
sunlight or running races with dew dr. p5
along grass-bad $, while his cast-off
clothes are wait ng In ftrlcrn Il tie heap
which he FIRST failing twig or dash of a II
a detached / &. but VIII abandon IL when
she hrds IL empty.
The young grasshopper does not know
that he has moulted and passed into the
second stage Of his nymphhood. The
growth Of grasshoppers Is by successive
mouths In its immature or nymph ctage.
They are said to have an incomplete meta
nlorphosls That Is. they do not have four
distinct changes Of form, the egg, the
larva, the pupa and adult, but only three,
namely. egg. nymph and adult Butter
flies all have four changes of form. while
grasshoppers, crlckeis dragon flies and
katydids have only three.
If young grasshopper were 10 examine
his new skin after the third mQult he
would discover that he had reached the
age when pockets are provided him. lie
has four of these, and they are back
pockets" If he were TO try his best. how
ever, he could find no way TO put anything
into them, for they are more Ike shams
than real pockets. We call them wings,
bun they look as lite like wings as like
pockets The grasshopper pays no atten-
ton TO them whatever and we never see
him trying 20 make them go. His legs
can leap higher than ever, and Il is almost
like flying when he can throw his body
through the air a distance fifty times as
long as he is. Probably most of the
nymphs found at this season viii be in the
last or me next 70 the ldHt stage, ana tne
transformation from the nymph TO the
adult stage can be watched through the
glass. Orc who has seen this TRANSFORMED
ton and realized its meaning viii not coon
forget the experience.
How a grasshopper gets the main part
Of his living we can easily see by watching
a grass blade disappear behind his four
hungry Jaws. How he takes care Of him
self now he hreaths and sees and hears
these are not so obvious.
Examine the head for any trace of nos-
triis Tor breathing. There are none. We
must look elsewhere. Over and over we
turn him seeking for the breathing holes,
and find them at last along the side OF the
body Two on each little ring or segment.
Trey are not on the head at all
That grasshoppers can see and hear is
quite evident for they lose no time IN get
ting out OF the way al rae approach Of
danger. The eyes cover a large part OF
the head and are very unlike the eyes OF