Not a word, not a sound, but some birds twittering outside in the sun and a locust making that frying sound in the fire-weed.

And the Boy kept looking down at Nig, and the birds sang, and the locust whirred, and the hot sun filled the tent as high-tide flushes a sea-cave.

That from myriad spicy cups distils, Loitering along o'er the locust-trees.

Long, stinging cry of a locust comes in from a tree, half a mile off; had forgotten there was such a tree.

The locust and the chestnut, those spendthrifts of the woods, that went the pace so gorgeously in June, are now sober-coated enough, and growing even threadbare.

But the same answer may be applied as before; "that the same kind Providence, who tempered the body of the animal, tempered also the body of the tree; that he gave it a quality to recover the bite of the locust, which he sent; and to reassume, in a short interval of time, its former glory.

[Illustration] There are different kinds of the locust; those we are acquainted with, in this country, are represented in the above cut.

In the eastern countries, a kind or kinds of locust, at different periods, have been very numerous, and have done abundance of damage.

After a time, when he had exchanged his infant down for a suit of feathers, he was promoted to a large cage out in the garden, and his regular diet was a little raw meat or a mutton bone tied to one of his perches, but, by way of a treat, I would offer him, whenever I could get it, a locust, or large grasshopper.

Step back a little this way, sir," she said, when Lawrence had joined her, "and give me your opinion of that locust tree by the corner of the porch.

" Lawrence, speaking much more earnestly than when discussing the locust tree, replied that he thought this would be quite proper.

"That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eaten; and that which the canker-worm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.

"That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eaten; and that which the canker-worm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.

The road was beside the stream of Fautaua, and arching it were magnificent dark-green trees, like the locust-trees of Malta.

A locust-tree in front of the jail had been used for a whipping-post, and they were very desirous that it should be cut down.

"Grandma kept a barrel to make locust and persimmon beer in.

I remember that old Master used to go out in the front yard and stand by a locust tree and put his ear against it.

" "At the side and anywhere else where she thinks there ought to be a real fence she's going to put honey locust.

"And leaves of the locust trees on the other side of the road," added Malcolm.

The Years of the locust.

Behind him, like a wilderness, lay years which the locust had eaten; the intrusted hours which had passed away, and been reckoned to him as they past.

Allowed that the big locust in front of Binder's store made an ideal spot for a jolly little funeral.

| Honey locust | 1,684 | 197.5 | | Black locust |

| 11 Engelmann pine | 266 | 272 | 253 | 274 | | 12 Alpine fir | 241 | 284 | 203 | 235 | |-| | NOTE.Black locust and hickory are not included in this table, | | but their position would be near the head of the list.

Hackberry | 422 | 436 | | Locust, honey | 552 | 610 |