d Grasshoppers) 21
IV. FIDDLERS (Crickets) 34
V. HOW KATY DID (Katydids) 43
VI. FISHING (Dragon-flies) 50
VII. THE SWIMMING-POOL (The May-fly) 61
VIII. THE RAINY DAY (Leaf and Tree Hoppers) 68
IX. THE PRIZE (Lace-Wing, Ant-Lion, and Caddis-Worm) 77
X. A NAGGING FAMILY (Flies and Mosquitoes) 90
XI. CAMPING OUT (Butterflies and Moths) 103
XII. CAMP-IN-THE-CLOUDS (Butterflies and Moths, continued) 114
XIII. STORM BOUND (Beetles) 122
XIV. A DAY'S HUNTING (Bees) 136
XV. LEAVING CAMP (Wasps) 153
XVI. EYES AND NO EYES (Ants) 167

NOTE.--We do not think it practicable to give classifications except as
they exist unnamed in the above titles: (1) straight winged: locusts,
grasshoppers, crickets, katydids; (2) tooth-shaped: dragon-flies; (3)
ephemerals: may-flies; (4) half-winged: leaf and tree hoppers; (5)
nerve-winged: lace-wings, ant-lions, and caddis-worms; (6) two-winged:
flies and mosquitoes; (7) scaly winged: butterflies and moths; (8)
sheath-winged: beetles; (9) membranous-winged: bees, wasps, and ants.

A WORD TO THE CHILDREN AND THE WISE

We hope that the children who read this book will like the boys and
girls who are in it. They are real, and the good times they have are
real, as any boy or girl who has lived out-of-doors will know. And the
stories are true. Peter is not always good. But do you expect a child
_always_ to be good? We do not. Sometimes, too, the frolics turn in to a
scramble to catch a dragon-fly that will not be caught, and there are
accidents. Also, Betty and Jack work hard to win a prize which the guide
gives to the child who learns most about ants.

Of course it would be impossible for five children to go in search of
locusts, grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, dragon-flies, May-flies,
leaf-hoppers, lace-wings, caddis-worms, butterflies, beetles, bees,
wasps--and so many other six-legged creatures that among them they have
wings and legs enough to fill a new Pandora's box--without having a
good deal happen. And a good deal does happen. It is all true enough,
and every word about the six-legged busybodies is true as true. Th