
a a ee 
The Spinner Family 
mouse, then bounds through the air. 
‘There is a smothered buzz from the 
fly, a strike of the sharp weapons, and 
the breakfast is won. 
Miss Attida’s favorite hunting-ground 
is the top of a board fence. Here she 
may be found with her sisters any 
day during the autumn months, walk- 
ing leisurely about, or jumping gaily 
from one position to another. 
She often jumps just for the fun of 
it, as schoolboys do. No wonder she 
likes to do it, she is such an excel- 
lent jumper. I have seen her skim 
through the air from the fence to a 
rose-bush nearly three feet away. She 
can jump sidewise as well as forward. 
When she springs off to one side you 
half expect to see her come tumbling 
down to the ground in a heap. But 
she never does; even if she fails to 
reach the goal for which she started 
she does not fall, but calmly swings 
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