Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 667
n clouds. Ascending among this airy fraternity duringearlj fall, you may perchance notice a slenderbundle of a few long, glistening, silky strands,loosely gathered together about their middle, leav-ing their free ends flying in the wind, waving up-ward from their weighted center. You mightmake many… … THE SPIDER BALLOONISTS.On the leaf the one to the left is almost ready to depart. The onenext to him has just sprung off. The one in the air a little to the leftof these has just started. Note the position. The highest one andthe one next, to the right and a trifle below, are in the attitude…
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