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for whenever one Spinner starts out, 
hundreds are sure to follow, so that 
the whole air may be filled with their 
dainty kite-strings stretching in every 
direction. None of the large Spinners 
fly, but the young of almost all spiders 
take at least one jaunt through the air 
before they settle down to the hum- 
drum life of building homes and set- 
ting snares for prey. Spinners that 
never become very large even when 
grown up fly whenever they wish to. 
It is no easy matter to catch a Flier 
in the act of starting out on her journey 
through the air. The first thing that she 
does when she has made up her mind 
to go off on a pleasure trip is to climb to 
the top of a weed or a shrub or a fence — 
post, where the breeze has a good sweep. 
This first step taken, it depends upon 
who the Spinner is what she will do next. 
If she is a young garden spider or 
jumper, she will fasten an end of a 
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