Something seems to be wrong with it; it does not fly nor try to get
away.

What a big one it is!

My! my! what eyes!

Don't crowd, Amy; let little Nell see too.

What is that you say, Richard? "It catches mosquitoes and gnats and
flies and other insects while flying."

Yes, and that is why it has such big eyes. We should need big eyes
ourselves if we were to spend our time chasing mosquitoes.

Two eyes you have, little dragon fly, like the rest of us, but your eyes
are not like ours.

No, indeed!

Each of your big eyes is made up of a great many small eyes packed close
together.

Do you know, children, that some of the largest of the dragon flies have
as many as twenty thousand facets, or small eyes, in each large eye?

Think of it! Forty thousand eyes in one little dragon fly head. It
_ought_ to see well.

These facets are six-sided, excepting those along the edge, which are