62 The Structure and Habits of Spiders. 



along, holding it off with one of the hind-feet, 

 and makes it fast an inch or two from one end 

 of the first ; then she goes back to the centre, 



Fig. 28. 



attaches another line, which she carries off in 

 another direction, and fastens ; and so on, until 

 all the rays of the web, Fig. 28, are finished. 



