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Flashlights o\ Nature 



however, that I sliall describe it at some lenj^th, 

 with needful explanations. 



Rosalind he^an by letting the wind fix an original 

 base thread, pretty much by accident. As soon as 

 she was satisfied with the lie of this, she formed a 



few others about it 

 irrej^ularly in a rouj^h 

 pentaj^on, as you see 

 in the (niter part of 

 the web, merely to 

 serve as a scaffolding 

 for her future opera- 

 tions. But as soon 

 as she had formed a 

 careless an^^ular fij^ure 

 all round the sphere 

 of her projected snare, 

 she letdown a perpen- 

 dicular thread from 

 the top of her base, 

 throuj^h the centre oi 

 her predestined home, 

 and fastened it off at 

 the bottom by j^lidin^ 

 down it as she span 

 it. Then, walkinj^ up 

 this first ray-line a^ain, she set to work once more 

 a little to the rij^ht, spinning aj^ain as she walked, 

 and fastened a second ray from the centre of the 

 first to one of her outer cables. Next, time after 

 time, she walked back to the centre, ran alon<f 

 the last ray made, trailing a thread as she went. 



NO. 2. — YOUNC: SI'inKRI.TNC.S C'ASIINr. 

 r HKIR KIRSr THRl'.ADS TO (All II 

 TIIK WIND. 



