Now for those fellows with the long hind legs, the locusts and katydids and crickets. Yes, all of you are ready to name them.
We call them—what?
May says, the Hopping Orthoptera.
John thinks Jumping Orthoptera would sound better.
And that is what we name them, the Jumping Orthoptera.
How many kinds of Jumping Orthoptera are we acquainted with, Ned? Now, think before you speak.
He says we know the shorthorned grasshoppers, or locusts, the longhorned, or meadow, grasshoppers, and the crickets.
Very well done, Ned.
May wants to know what has become of the katydids and the cricket-like grasshoppers—she thinks Ned has left them out.
Ned says they belong to the longhorned grasshoppers.