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Show THE GRASSHOPPER DESCRIBED. DE-SCRIBED. Tho grasshopper as a champion nuiltinlyist has no equal, Ho lays (speaking generically and not to put too fine a point upon it) an egg which is about tho size and shape ot a long primer 0. In fact he lays teveral uf them. From August 1 until winter he is actuated by : reckless ambition to bore holes in the ground, of the size ol a pipe s.em, and then to till thse holes with cream-colored 00. And though lie is small tie attends tu his b:z, and is a triumphant sue-ctss. sue-ctss. In stature he is about a m.ilch lur a sixpenny Blub ua;l, in form lu is like unto a lynchpin, and ho nL-rs a green eiding-wax bend on him and a pair of glass eyes, so tht with his lung-tailed duller on lie looks like an utuopmsticat-d and near-ight'-d schoolmaster. But unsophisticated isn't w tint's tt.o matter with hhn. Aud numeration i bis be l mathe- . muliciw tiokl. Ha will stand him-cif bolt upright hke a peg in one oftliose holes afjn s t:d, and view the heavens Willi un air of sLiblino seienity an I woe I en-head i d uncoil.-. :iousncn. Don't you U) yourself ho knows just what ho ii uhout. Me prefixes uiinfl. :f l:k-- .1 1: t r 1 in the tnii:ui-?, and, adopting lh decimal in stem of tiot.ition, ca uny pl.ic-a a 0 whrro it wid du ine m-'.-l go -1. Tli.it sUiudj f . r l'l, ad bef.jre you e-tn d it and c.irry or:e he h.u a! Kd auo'.uer cip- r t tii.a, .ml iii now r-M-Iri U. A'njllt tins lime Vo i beln d neuvrr what a jrt (if a n3iier lie w, and yoj enlert.i.n n deftTi-rt n iw f r bun no; iiejiiir.l by a fr.mt view of h: i gri-n KeA tping -i i'i'i-iri you dii.ov.r tint bo H u iKngeroun nf igiil t. i! it niiile J'du (ttai'.d ain..K -.lhe r.p:diy outliivi liiteen or tweu'.y ni':e (, c.trrymg hn r-.t.liin r-.t.liin into t;i" niihiuii lii...n-'i-i, uud Jh.ij oed :i:. l ci nien'..d it up ready I tu be fin i at y u n--il iring. In twu iniii'.U' at. I a quarter li-j iij.- g;v n yo.i a probh-m t;i it witii ali -.;ir p -w.t of niuitipV.c ; mi imiul-I l-P ,."o!ve.l or e.juaUl. Ho (Minpwtindi j hn intcre.il ui lf.it cent, eviry tie I ai-t un i-1, put a map juduu nt cm j on r conilio d, and nreclvi tvlore Iyoii cati i ay Jack U biniu. t'triut |