Pond Life 
Kingsley’s Water Ladies you should doso 
as soon as you possibly can, for it will 
tell you tales of all sorts of things below 
water and above it in afar more interest- 
ing way than any fairy tale—and they 
are all true.) 
Then the surface of the water is dotted 
with fairy-like forms floating as lightly 
as gossamer down the stream, and the 
air is full of crowds of gauzy, fluttering 
creatures.) find there Scems ito wboewes 
quite unusual excitement, and an excep- 
tional number of swallows and martins 
and other birds at this spot. If you 
watch any particular swallow you will 
see that it is circling about just where the 
mayflies are thickest, and that in its 
flight it seems to meet mayfly after may- 
fly, and each time the insect suddenly 
and mysteriously disappears. Take 
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