The Fliers 
the boat-like balloon fast to / some 
support, and then goes sailing / away. 
Sometimes she soars farup /above the 
trees, sometimes danger ously near 
the topmost branches, / according to 
the caprice of the wind that is 
carrying her. yy 
How far these / 



little Spinners 
0 through wa the air is 
hard to Sag] guess. No 
doubt yi some of them 
travel WV many miles 



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in a few | Ss : 
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men tell us | AGG: 
1, dreds of 
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have seen hun ( WO 
these tiny crea :‘¢y yf tures alight 
NY and rigging 
on their decks 
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 1s perhaps a method 
of migration to new fields where they 
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hours. Sea- 
that they 
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