Note 3 — Chapter XIV · THE GREEN GRASSHOPPER

I do, in fact, with a view to varying the diet, decide to serve up some very sweet fruits, slices of pear, grape-pips, bits of melon. All this meets with delighted appreciation. The Green Grasshopper resembles the English: she dotes on underdone rumpsteak seasoned with jam.3 This perhaps is why, on catching the Cicada, she first rips up his paunch, which supplies a mixture of flesh and preserves.