FLYING SPIDERS
There are times when a young spider flies high! It may be when he finds home overcrowded: for, sad to say, the mother, at first so devoted to her children, grows tired of them after a while, or likes them too well—for breakfast. Then it behoves the„ family to scatter, going out into the wide world to seek their fortune. In sober truth, they fly from home dangers. But not on wings. No, this is the manner of their flight: They stand “tiptoe upon a little hill,” turning their bodies to offer the least possible resistance to the wind, and then they
begin to make a flying machine. They spin and spin until their little streamers of silk are long enough to buoy them up. Then the first breeze that comes their way lifts them and carries them on their journey into the unknown. While the breeze determines the direction of their travel, the distance depends upon themselves. When the moment is ripe, they furl their streamers and down they drop, ready to start life for themselves,
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 451, 5 September 1928, Page 6
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179FLYING SPIDERS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 451, 5 September 1928, Page 6
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