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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 



