The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 104National Geographic Society, 1953 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 133
... Cicada Drums Female. 133 O`in NLY a few weeks ago , on a warm night in May , a mysterious signal crossed the land ... cicada and his keening cry will be only a memory . Then the very air would hang in limp relief were it not for the dog ...
... Cicada Drums Female. 133 O`in NLY a few weeks ago , on a warm night in May , a mysterious signal crossed the land ... cicada and his keening cry will be only a memory . Then the very air would hang in limp relief were it not for the dog ...
Page 137
... cicadas ' lives , For they all have silent wives . No one who has heard the periodical cicada in full chorus will forget the sound . The woods ring as if a hundred buzz saws were ripping through oak knots - a shrill discordant wail ...
... cicadas ' lives , For they all have silent wives . No one who has heard the periodical cicada in full chorus will forget the sound . The woods ring as if a hundred buzz saws were ripping through oak knots - a shrill discordant wail ...
Page 142
... cicada emergence : a throng of winged insects and a silent army of shells . The bewildered observer at first assumes the shells to be complete insects and marvels that so many could have appeared and died within one night's passing ...
... cicada emergence : a throng of winged insects and a silent army of shells . The bewildered observer at first assumes the shells to be complete insects and marvels that so many could have appeared and died within one night's passing ...
Contents
Fact Finding for Tomorrows Planes A Little Faninabox Wind | v |
All America Mingles in the Prairie State | ix |
Rip Van Winkle of the Underground North Americas Much Misunder | xii |
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