Stick.

Sir, why do you have such long antennæ? Can you hear and feel and smell
extra well because of them?

I wish you could tell us about them.

Now where is it?

Oh, yes, it is standing on that brown twig. It is so nearly the color of
the twig and so much the shape of a little stick itself, that it is not
easy to find it.

There, it is walking off again.

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It has a good name, for I am sure that if a stick tried to walk, it
could not do it more awkwardly.

See now, what it is doing, hanging by one foot from that twig.

How still it is.

Who would imagine, seeing it thus for the first time, that it was a
living creature?

The walking sticks feed on leaves, and I suppose their queer shape and
their color protect them from being eaten by birds.