Scenario
Playing outdoors together, Susie (four years three months) and Lee (four years) decide to look for beetles. Susie suggests going to the wild garden, where they both begin to lift up logs and stones. After a few moments of unproductive searching, Susie says, 'You lift it and I'll look... They can run fast, can't they? There's one!.. Oh, it's gone.'
Lee runs inside and returns with a magnifying 'bug box'. Susie lifts the log and Lee catches a woodlouse in his box. Triumphantly, he shows other children who are gathering to watch.
'I'm going to get another one!' says Lee. 'Watch. When I pick this (log) up, I bet they all run inside the wood...They like it when it's dark.'
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