NOW IN PRESS: Dr. Boli’s Complete Geography. Other elementary geography textbooks make various claims to comprehensiveness, but only Dr. Boli’s Complete Geography can truly be called complete, because only Dr. Boli’s Complete Geography includes imaginary lands and countries, omitted by all other standard texts, as well as the ordinary lands and countries to be found in inferior geography books. Henceforth any geography text other than Dr. Boli’s must be regarded as incomplete and not suitable for use in primary schools with any pretension to academic rigor.
DR. BOLI’S ALLEGORICAL BESTIARY.
No. 8.—Crickets.
A SINGLE CRICKET is a complete mobile weather station. From the frequency of its chirps, the ambient temperature may be calculated; from the length of its hops, the barometric pressure; from the angle of its antennae, the wind speed; from the width of its thorax, the mean annual rainfall in Bushnell, Fla. In the nineteenth century, when a class of professional meteorologists first arose, crickets were hunted almost to extinction; but, under protective legislation, their numbers have recovered satisfactorily. Crickets are associated with conscience in popular culture—an association that puzzles and amuses entomologists, who know that the crickets’ weakness to temptation makes them especially prone to crimes of embezzlement.
In traditional medieval allegory, the cricket represents Latitude.
