That evening, Grandpa and Grandma and the children sat on the porch, listening to the chirp of the katydids and the call of the whippoorwills.
That evening, as they sat on the porch, Joyce said a little sadly, "It will not be long now before we shall hear the noisy street cars again, instead of the katydids and whippoorwills.
But what I liked best was to sit out on the porch in the evenings, and listen to the katydids and whippoorwills, and watch the stars come out one by one.
Never afterward did he hear the katydids singing at night without a recurrent echoing vibration of happiness flowing into his heart.
The katydids told you there would be frost in six weeks.
The peeps and crickets and katydids were out in force.
The katydids were singing in infinite peace under the solemn splendor of the moon.
The katydids and an occasional cricket were the only sounds Rob could hear as he stood beside his team and strained his ear to listen.
The katydids sang a rhythmic song of welcome to him.
Thereafter he lay hearing the robins laugh and the orioles whistle, and then the frogs and katydids at night.
The dust fell, a dog barked down the road and the katydids sang to the liquid contralto of the river in its shallows.
That is whykatydids and locusts die every winter, while the ants live in their warm houses.
But thekatydids and locusts never do anything in warm weather but sing.
But, first, where do you suppose the crickets and katydids have their ears?
There would be no katydids singing all night, no clacking of the locusts in the tall grass along dusty roads, no drowsy hum of bees.
Let me see--there were the grasshoppers and the locusts and the katydids and the crickets.
They bloom before the katydidsbegin and survive the first frost.
Crickets, grasshoppers, andkatydids comprised most of the insect prey.
Then he said he knew how he could get away from the society of worms and crickets and katydids he hated, and all the deafening noises they made to drive him crazy.
The mosquitoes had gone, but the frogs and katydids still sang, while over in the west Venus shone.
Outside the katydids sang their prophecies of frost to come and an owl hooted.
Some of the families are attracted to light, as certain of the roaches and green locusts, or Katydids (Locustidae).
The katydidsand locusts are abundant on low shrubs or trees and in pasture and meadow land, but are most numerous in the somewhat dry, arid regions of the West.
The stars were thick in the sky; the katydids made the night oppressive with their rasping questionings, and a hoarse revel of frogs kept the ponds from falling asleep in the shadow of the hills.
The katydids seemed to beat their wings upon her brain, and all the noises of the night, far and near, came to her strained senses as if her silent chamber were a whispering gallery.
This is much nicer than the barn, and the katydids are better fiddlers than old Darby and his son.
As a result those katydids whose wings were most like leaves in form were least likely to be picked up by the passing bird.
When the katydids arrive their jaws are young and tender, but so are the leaves upon which they are born.
Hence there is little difficulty on the part of the young katydids in finding an abundance of food.
The music of the katydids had lost its power to soothe his troubled breast and bring him sweet repose.
In the attic of this lone cabin Jake Benton was regularly lulled to sleep by the evening lullabies of the katydids as they sang in the tops of the postoak trees with which the cabin was surrounded.
But every tiny night-creature--the Katydids and the Crickets and all the rest--knew that after sunset Simon Screecher was as wide awake as anybody.
Crickets and katydids and little green tree-frogs kept up a harsh concert.
The indifferent swamp chorus joined in, katydids and crickets shrilling all the while.
Katydids are cheerfully singing, Bidding summer days good-bye; O it makes us feel so lonely, Till we sit alone and sigh.
Ah, nature so lovely at twilight, The flowers receiving the dew; The katydids among the leaves are calling, The songs of the birds ever new.
And katydids always so funny: And fire-flies too--hurrah!
Over his head the Katydids were singing, "Lovely weather!
The Measuring Worm and the Katydids came down from their tree as the Milkweed Butterfly fluttered past.
Up in the tree where the Measuring Worm was, someKatydids were sitting on a branch and singing shrilly: "Did you ever?
You know Katydids sing with the covers of their wings, and so when he alighted on the branch he smoothed down his pale green suit and rubbed his wing-cases a little to make sure that they were in tune.
The Katydids who stayed near said that he croaked in his sleep, and that, you know, is not what well and happy Frogs should do.
Then he stopped to nibble a blade of grass and visit with some Katydids who were looking on.
The katydids and tree-frogs took charge of the conversation for us.
For an hour I read a magazine; the katydids were still clamoring softly and, in the distance, in the direction of the lake, I heard the plaintive notes of whippoorwills.
Crickets and katydids droned and fiddled all night, and when the katydids quit at daybreak, other grasshoppers and cicadas were ready to take their places in the screechy orchestra.
A fortnight hence the air will be vibrant with the calls of the katydids and the grasshoppers, but now the silence is supreme.
This is much nicer than the barn; and the katydids are better fiddlers than old Darby and his son.
Dead silence, while the katydids seemed to keep time to their heart-beats; the fiddles began tuning for another reel, and the horses tethered near stretched out their necks with low inquiring whinneys.
The katydids seemed to beat their wings upon her brain, and all the noises of the night, far and near, came to her strained senses, as if her silent chamber were a whispering gallery.
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