"Do you think you know where they are? Well, take these lanterns"—the guide had lighted half a dozen—"and find them."
The children scurried off, certain of a quick victory. In the woods about the cabin you could hear them shouting: "It's here!" "No, it isn't!" "Where is it?"
"A will-o'-the-wisp," murmured the old man; "may they never have a harder one to find!"
By-and-by the children came trotting back. They couldn't find the katydid in any place, and they had looked everywhere.
A. Eggs of the katydid.
B. A katydid.
C. Leg, showing katydid's ear.
D. Musical instrument at base of wings.
"Couldn't? How did you look?" He took one of the lanterns, went to a near-by tree, and held the lantern close to the leaves. "Here it is! Why, it's a great fellow!"
The children trooped into the cabin after him, crowding to look at the katydid.
"I thought they were brown," said Hope.