Fit as Fiddles and as Hard as Nails

They always face the breeze as they hover in the air and, if they swerve in the slightest from the eye of the wind, they lose control over their movements and are swept away to leeward. Nor does the wind determine only the direction of their flight but it also seems of value to them when alighted on the twigs and leaves of the camel-thorn. For such each dragon fly, while resting, will carefully face the wind, and I suspect that the air flowing over the outstretched wings helps to sustain the unequal balance of the long abdomen. In this altitude they take advantage of the very gentlest breath of air, and, like the soaring of a bird, they may indicate the direction of the wind when it is scarcely perceptible to man. Creatures that move upon the wing reap great benefit from the