ie niet a nck ee lees a aeRO 
The Fliers 
the boat-like balloon fast to /some 
support, and then goes sailing / away. 
Sometimes she soars far up above the 
trees, sometimes danger ously near 
the topmost branches, / according to 
the caprice of the wind that is 
carrying: her. 
How far these 
vo through yp 
hard to 






little Spinners 
the Att cis 
guess. — No 
doubt some of them 
travel many miles 
in a few hours. Sea- 
men tell us ~ 
have seen hun 
these tiny crea: 
on their decks 
that they 
dreds of 
tures alight 
‘) and rigging 
when all land « She stands WAS more 
than a hundred | “miles away. 
Why these spiders fly is another 
puzzling question. In the case of 
some species it is perhaps a method 
of migration to new fields where they 
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