23 MAY 1874, Page 16

TELLING THE CRICKETS.

[TO THE EDITOR OF TIER "SPECTITOR:] Sin,---Reading the poetry "Telling the Bees "in your last number reminds me of an incident that occurred in my own family some years ago. A little boy was exceedingly fond of crickets, and used to feed them regularly and call them his "dickey-birds." He died when he was about five years old, and it was noticed that from that time the crickets entirely disappeared. This was thought a very strange circumstance, and the remark made by the country- people was, "You should have rapped at the wall and told the crickets." This seems to me quite as singular a superstition as "Telling the Bees," and equally deserving the consideration of