He disdains to bite it; or perhaps his bites escape me, so tiny would they be.
In a few days, what with my ten households, I see myself loaded with family cares.

What shall I do with my five or six thousand Crickets, an attractive flock, to be sure, but one I cannot bring up in my ignorance of the treatment required?
I will give you liberty, gentle creatures! I will confide you to the sovereign nurse and schoolmistress, Nature! It is done.

Here and there about my orchard, in the most favourable localities, I loose my legions.

What a concert I shall have before my door next year if all goes well! But no! There will probably be silence, for the terrible extermination will follow which corresponds with the fertility of the mother.

A few couples only may survive: that is the most we can hope.
The first to come to the living feast and the most eager at the slaughter are the little grey lizard and the ant.