"Chip!" whisk! and Madam Squirrel was off up the branch like a streak of brown lightning, with its tail up.
Hilda laughed at the squirrel's alarm, and then turned her attention to a large green grasshopper who seemed to demand it.

He had alighted on her knee, and now proceeded to exhibit his different points before her admiring gaze with singular gravity and deliberation.

First he slowly opened his wings, to show the delicate silvery gauze of the under-wings; then as slowly closed them, demonstrating the perfect fit of his whole wing-costume and the harmony of its colors.

He next extended one leg, calling her attention to its remarkable length and muscular proportions.

Then, lest she should think he had but one, he extended the other; and then gave a vigorous hop with both of them, to show her that he did not really need wings, but could get on perfectly well without them.