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Title: Mother Nature's little ones
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Fox, Frances Margaret, 1870-
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ho saw him in the morning, dressedin gauzy black, called him the Seventeen-yearLocust, though Cicada was his name. Whenhe spread his great wings and flew through thesunlight it seemed like a fairy tale that hewas the old, old baby who had lived seventeenyears underground. Yet such was the truth. CHAPTER XL A WATER - BABY The Caddis Worm had never seen hismother. Where she was or what she lookedlike, he didnt know. Not that he ever askedany questions. Little folks who live in pondsand streams learn to keep out of the way andsay nothing. It wouldnt be safe for them totalk too much or they might be eaten up bysome hungry creature, fond of children. Itfrightened the Caddis Worm to even see a fishgo swimming by, because he knew that fishesswallowed babies like him. He and a great many brothers and sisterswere hatched at the same time from eggs thathad been left on the floating-leaf of a water-plant. They knew without being told that theymust make little houses for themselves to live in. 66
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WATER-BABIES A WATER-BABY 69 One brother was a slow-poke, though, andwhile he was wasting his time, along came apollywog, and down went the little brotherright into the pollywogs stomach. Anotherlittle brother was making fun of one of thesisters because the house she was trying tomake of sticks didnt look pretty, when alongcame a minnow and down went that littlebrother: never was seen again. Another littlebrother was silly enough to listen to a tadpolewho said, Why do you make a house foryourself to live in ? You are such a handsomefellow — so slender and wriggling! Youought not to hide yourself away wherefolks like me cannot see you! How I wishI were long and slim like you! Do come closerand see how clumsy I am! That silly littlebrother went closer, and then he never wasseen again, because the tadpole swallowed himas quickly as any old toad ever swallowed afly. Another little brother said he guessed hewouldnt make a house because it was so muchpleasanter to swim around the pond wit

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