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kind At first I thought of mice but soon saw they were too light delicate for mice. Then a tiny lizard darted into the stubble
a head of me I carefully examined the track he made, but it was entirely unlike the fine print embroidery I was studying.
However I knew that he might make very different tracks if walking leisurely therefore I determined to cutch one experiment.
I found out in Florida that lizards however swift are short winded so I gave chase soon captured a tiny gray fellow carried
him to a smooth sand bed where he could embroider without getting away into grass tufts or holes. He was so wearied that he
couldn t skim was compelled to walk I was excited with delight in seeing an exquisitely beautiful strip of em broidery about
5/8 of an inch wide drawn out in flowing curves behind him as from a loam. The riddle was solved I knew that mountain bowlders
moved in music so also do lizards their written music printed by their feet moved so swiftly as to be invisible covers
the hot sands with beauty wherever they go. But my sand embroidery lesson was by no means done. I speedily discovered a yet
more delicate pattern on the sands woven into that of the lizards. I examined the strange combination of bars dots no five
toed lizard had printed that music I watched narrowly down on my knees following the strange beautiful pattern along the wheel
furrows out into the stubble Occasionally the pattern would suddenly end in a shallow pit half an inch across an eighth of
an inch deep I was fairly puzzled, picked up my bundle trudged discontentedly away but my eyes were hungrily awake I watched
all the ground. At length a gray grasshopper rattled flew up the truth flashed upon me that he was the complementary embroiderer
of the lizard. Then followed long careful observation. but I never could see the grasshopper until he jumped, after he