THE WONDER OF LIFE 



But another vul- 

 ture, watching 



From his high 

 aerial look-out, 



Sees the down- 

 ward plunge 

 and follows, 



And a third pur- 

 sues the second, 



Coming from the 

 invisible ether, 



First a speck and 

 then a vulture 



Till the air is dark 

 with pinions '. 



And then 

 it, comes the 



blinding poetic 

 R flash- 



'So disasters 

 come not 



55 



FL 



singly '. 



There are 

 humdrum ways 

 of getting food, 

 which the 

 grazing herds 

 illustrate. But 



FIG. 4. Web of Garden Spider. The spinner how often this 

 makes first the strong foundation-lines (FL). 

 Then the rays (B) are made. Third, a non- 

 viscid primary spiral (PS) is formed, as a 

 scaffolding, from the centre outwards. . , , . 



Fourthly, this is replaced by the viscid dramatically! 

 secondary spiral (ss), which is the genuine JjJverV one has 

 web, made from the outside inwards. ' 



heard of the 



Archer or Spitting Fish (Toxotes) of Malay, which shoots 





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is solved 



