Spinners who Live in the Ground 
tremendous speed across the path be- 
fore you. You catch but a ys of 
it, but that glimpseisenough  ; 
to tell you that it is a Spin- 
ner with very long legs. 
The legs are sont as well 
as long, so that a 
beetle or other walk- 7 
ing insect has little PE Hd Si 
chance to win in a 
race with one of these swift runners. 
But these dark-robed racers are per- 
haps the least interesting of all the 
Spinners who live in the ground. 
Some day when you are raking the 
dead leaves from your yard you spy, 
down among the grass blades, some- 
thing new and strange. You stoop 
down to investigate, and find three or 
four dead leaves, as many straws and 
sticks all fastened together so as to 
form a tube-like passage with an open- 
ing at one side. This opening leads 
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