They are not so long as the wings of the grasshopper, but they overlap on top.
Sometimes they are not so long as the body of the cricket.
Just watch now!
How spry the cricket folk are!
They jump well, but they also run well. They are always running about as though they enjoyed it.
It is not easy to catch one of them unless we, too, are "as spry as a cricket."
Funny little rascals, to come peeping at us like that, from out the crevices in the stones.
When we stir,—pop! they are back out of sight.
They eat leaves, and they enjoy a piece of nice, ripe fruit, or a bit of juicy vegetable.