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The Life of the Grasshopper

Note 2 — Chapter XX · THE FOAMY CICADELLA

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

This method brings us back to the industry of the lily-dweller, the grub which makes itself a loathsome armour out of its excretions;2 but what a distance between the heap of ordure which it wears on its back and the Cicadella’s aerated mattress!

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