To fly well is quite as necessary to one of its habits as to see well.
What would be the use of seeing an insect if it could not fly fast enough to catch it?
We all like your pretty wings, little dragon fly; they look like glass and they shine so in the sun.
How fast the wings can move! See that dragon fly skimming over the pond; its wings make a whizzing sound as it darts about.
Why does it zigzag so?
Why doesn't it fly in a straight line?
Yes, Mollie, you are right, it goes zigzagging along after insects.
It sees one it wants off at one side—whizz! around it turns after it.
Shouldn't you like to fly like that, children?