The Life of the Grasshopper
The Life of the Grasshopper
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The Mantis claws you with her pruning-hooks, pricks you with her spikes, seizes you in her vice and makes self-defence almost impossible if, wishing to keep your prize alive, you refrain from giving the pinch of the thumb that would put an end to the struggle by crushing the creature.
When at rest, the trap is folded and pressed back against the chest and looks quite harmless. There you have the insect praying. But, should a victim pass, the atti- tude of prayer is dropped abruptly. Sud- denly ...unfolded, the three long sections of the machine throw to a distance their term- inal grapnel, which harpoons the prey and, in returning, draws it back between the two saws. The vice closes with a movement like that of the fore-arm and the upper arm; and all is over : Locusts, Grasshoppers and others even more powerful, once caught in the mechanism with its four rows of teeth, are irretrievably lost. Neither their desperate 117 HOW CRICKETS SING Camera Shows They Used Wings Instead of Legs Ih Pro- ducing Their Notes Crickets sing with their wings and not with their legs.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The Mantis claws you with her pruning-hooks, pricks you with her spikes, seizes you in her vice and makes self-defence almost impossible if, wishing to keep your prize alive, you refrain from giving the pinch of the thumb that would put an end to the struggle by crushing the creature.
When at rest, the trap is folded and pressed back against the chest and looks quite harmless. There you have the insect praying. But, should a victim pass, the atti- tude of prayer is dropped abruptly. Sud- denly ...unfolded, the three long sections of the machine throw to a distance their term- inal grapnel, which harpoons the prey and, in returning, draws it back between the two saws. The vice closes with a movement like that of the fore-arm and the upper arm; and all is over : Locusts, Grasshoppers and others even more powerful, once caught in the mechanism with its four rows of teeth, are irretrievably lost. Neither their desperate 117 HOW CRICKETS SING Camera Shows They Used Wings Instead of Legs Ih Pro- ducing Their Notes Crickets sing with their wings and not with their legs.
What to read after The Life of the Grasshopper?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Jean Henry Casimir Fabre to read onlineMoreLess
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