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and fore legs beating the air, her hind ones bent at their an- 

 gles so as to let the end of her pointed body, which was held 

 bolt upright, come in contact with the ground. Here, then, 

 was our "Jenny Spinner," not thus spinning for amusement 

 merely to make herself, like a votary of the waltz, drunken 

 with delight, but gravely spinning mischief to the grass. 

 With the united points of her sharp shining forceps she was 

 gimletting the turf, and in every hole dropping one or more, 

 perhaps, of her grain-like eggs, germs minute of future long- 

 legged spinners, which, to an atom multitude of surrounding 

 creepers, were to be as ostriches to wrens as camelopards to 

 field-mice ! 



TO vtts^fo an (fmmdHb; iEujprn&mtS dTrnaKun , J . 



