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EYE SPY 
like affair like that of the Argiope riparia, hung 
with its guy threads upon a dried fern. 
The ballooning or flying spiders are not con- 
fined to any partic- 
ular species. It seems 
to be an instinct with 
them all, but espe- 
cially with the orb- 
weavers, or geometri- 
cal web -makers, and 
the wolf spiders ; 
those queer short- 
legged specimens 
which dodge about upon the 
walls and fences, running for- 
ward or backward as the whim 
takes them, or even sideways 
in a manner at which a crab 
might turn green with envy, 
A shower of cobwebs of unusual extent fell in 
the vicinity of Brooklyn about ten years ago. hav- 
ing been especially noted by a party of surveyors 
