While the cicadas of which we have spoken are the children of an ancient race which inhabits America, Europe also has her ancient races of cicadas, although they are not the kind which live hermit lives for seventeen years. We have evidence that their music was held in high esteem by the ancient races of men--especially the Greeks. When Homer complimented his orators he compared them with cicadas. Thus it may lend a special interest to the study of the cicada by our Junior Naturalists when they know that his kettle drums have been celebrated instruments of music by poets who wrote three thousand years before America was discovered by Columbus. QUERIES FOR SHARP EYES. 1. When did you first see one of the cicadas? 2. What was it doing when you found it? 3. Did it do anything to attract your notice to it, or did you find it by accident? 4. Where did you find it? 5. See whether you can determine which are the father and which the mother cicadas. 6. Try to find where a mother cicada has laid eggs. 7. If you find where the cicada emerged from the ground, or from a hut, give a brief description of the location, as to kind of soil, etc. 8. Where did you find the most of the cast-off nymph skins? 9. Did you discover animals or birds feeding upon the cicada? LEAFLET LXXI. A HOME FOR FRIENDLY LITTLE NEIGHBORS.[92] BY ALICE G. MCCLOSKEY. (Compare Leaflet XVII.) [92] Junior Naturalist Monthly, October, 1902. [Illustration] Last year when vacation days were over our young people found it hard to leave the acquaintances that they had made during the summer,--the garden-folk, the road-side-folk, and the wood-folk. Let us take them indoors with us this year. It will not be difficult to provide a home for some of the more friendly ones and they will help to make the schoolroom a cheerful place. How pleasant it will be in the long afternoons to hear the cricket's merry tune or see the flutter of a butterfly's wings! The quiet woods and the green fields will then seem nearer and we shall feel a little touch of their mystery and beauty. It is not necessary to have a fine home for the outdoor-folk. They will not object if it is not an up-to-date dwelling. Fig. 341 illustrates a very convenient terrarium, as the home is called. The sides and top are covered with fine wire screening and the front is glass. By raising the cover, which is fastened to one side by means of hinges, new visitors can be admitted easily. Another terrarium is shown in Fig. 126, page 208. This is made from an old berry crate. It does not look quite so well as the other, but, as I said before, the inmates will not mind a bit. The toads will give their high jump as gracefully and the crickets fiddle as merrily as in the finer one.