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numlocrs, without interfering with one another. On the other 

 hand it is (luite puzzling t(^ handle more than one, after they 

 have become separated from their natural "handle," for, being 

 much larger than a basket ball, one entangles with the others, 

 and tends to make a very unmanageable feathery mass. Such 

 giant unions are frequently met with in groves of small oak trees 

 that border an open place, that has grown this grass as its chief 

 crop. Driven by the wind to these "covers," sometimes the 

 tumblers have accumulated to the depth of four or more feet, 

 and with the upper surface nearly level and suggesting a fairy 

 lake rather than a fairyland. Through such a "pond," far less 

 substantial than feathers, one may pass dryshod, but the move- 

 ments, that will be induced in the ghost-like surroundings, are 

 not easily described. All the individual "balls" are bound 

 together and yet capable of a wide range of motions. 



The favorable places to find detached and independent 

 "^umblers" Is a wire fence of the square mesh sort, against 

 which the "spider balls" are held by the prevailing winds. 



When taken into the open, as upon a smooth cut lawn, and set 

 loose iDefore a gentle breeze, they start off on their fantastic 

 journey. The direction, of course, in general is determined by 

 the wind, but with a very gentle breeze there is much deviation 

 seemingly dependent upon the way the axis of the ball is related 

 to the line of the moving air. For example, when two tumblers 

 are started in the same direction, they do not necessarily move 

 in parallel lines as also they may not at equal rates of speed. 

 On account of this apparent element of chance (that may be 

 eliminated by proper training and study(?)) these tumblers may 

 become subjects of considerable amusement, possibly leading to 

 a mild form of satisfying the human inborn fondness for taking 

 chances upon subjects that are in motion. 



An excellent place for the study of the ways and rules of these 

 grass "migrators" is the golf "green" which b\' the way, is a 

 level square of bare smooth ground, with the central hole as the 

 only break in the dead uniformity of the surface, and this is of 

 no consequence, for the tumblers' "feet" are too many, and 

 body too big, to be caught by so small a pitfall as a golf cup. 



