Note 8 — Chapter IX · THE PINE COCKCHAFER
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Others, supplied with highly improved instruments, sing to beguile their solitude, to summon each other to the wedding, to celebrate the joys of life and the festival of the sunshine. Most of these singers are mute in a moment of danger. At the least disturbance, the Decticus8 shuts up his musical box and veils his dulcimer, on whose notes he was playing with his bow; the Cricket9 furls the wings which were vibrating above his back.