[Y] The writer has repeated these experiments in a number of cases, and finds their accuracy confirmed. By cutting off one of the poisers, the fly is partly crippled, and has a disposition to spin round in flying; by cutting off both, it is quite unable to fly at all, and becomes instantly sensible of the loss of apparently a most important pair of organs, by being so tame as not to try to escape from a touch. A "Father Long-legs" thus treated had a tendency to fall head foremost, and also to lie on its back. [Z] The writer is responsible for these experiments. [AA] See p. 160. Transcriber's Note All paragraphs split by illustrations were rejoined. All obvious typographical anf formatting errors were corrected. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Life of an Insect, by Anonymous