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its greed as well as its flight. And we must remember there 

 are dragons and dragons. Some of the tribes are as gentle 

 and pretty as butterflies. The sky-blue flies, that add much 

 beauty to many Berkshire streams, have not the tremendous 

 energy or dash of the yellows. The ' Demoiselles ' are deli- 

 cate creatures against which no charge of cruelty can be 

 levelled. But it is of the yellow snake with silver wings 

 that we think when we call the fly a dragon, or even, in the 

 American idiom, the 'devil's darning-needle.' 



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