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Title: Little Busybodies
The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies

Author: Jeanette Augustus Marks and Julia Moody

Release Date: June 27, 2007 [eBook #21948]

Language: English

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LITTLE BUSYBODIES

The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees Beetles, and Other Busybodies

by

JEANNETTE MARKS and JULIA MOODY
of Mount Holyoke College

Illustrated

[Illustration:
1. Cicada Killer
2. May-fly
3. Lacewing-fly
4. Dragon-fly
5. Aphis
6. June-Beetle
7. Cicada
8. Lady-Beetle
9. Mole Cricket
E. L. Beutenmuller]

Harper & Brothers Publishers
New York and London
MCMIX

* * * * *

STORY-TOLD SCIENCE
For Children from Eight to Fourteen Years of Age

Other Books for the Series:

CRUSTY COUSINS: Crabs, Spiders, etc.

SHELL DWELLERS AND URCHINS: Clams, Oysters, Snails, Starfish, Sea
Urchins

HATCHING WATER BABIES: Fish and Frogs

BIRD WITS

LITTLE MAMMALS

FLOWERS

A series intended to cover simple types of plant and animal life,
arranged in logical order

* * * * *

Harper & Brothers, Publishers, N. Y.
Copyright, 1909, by Harper & Brothers.
All rights reserved.
Published April, 1909.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

A WORD TO THE CHILDREN AND THE WISE v

I. THE JOURNEY 1
II. RANGELEY VILLAGE 11
III. THE LITTLE ARMY (Locusts an