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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



The flat kites of the Malay or Eddy type are not less pleasing 

 than their tailed cousins, the common kites of various shapes, and 

 are more like living creatures, because of their incessant action. 

 The mounting up of one after another with irregular movement, 

 now turning to right or to left or downward, then catching an 

 upward-going zephyr and soaring with it at an angle of seventy or 



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CoMPAKATivE Altitudes. 



eighty degrees far up after its hapjjy mates, will be watched by the 

 leisureful looker-on with absorbing interest. 



Behold them, at length, poised high in air; the position of the 

 far-away leader discoverable only by following with the eye the faint 

 spider thread of drooping line. Ceasing from progress and retro- 

 gression, poised like humming birds before a flower, tipping mo- 

 mentarily now one side and then the other in rhythmic movement. 



