The Labyrinth Spider 



spinstress will knead concrete; refuse her that 

 sand, or put it out of her reach, and the 

 Spider will remain a simple silk-worker, al- 

 ways ready, however, to turn mason under 

 favourable conditions. The aggregate of 

 things that come within the observer's scope 

 proves that it were mad to expect from her 

 any further innovations, such as would utterly 

 change her methods of manufacture and cause 

 her, for instance, to abandon her cabin, with 

 its two entrance-halls and its star-like taber- 

 nacle, in favour of the Banded Epeira's 

 pear-shaped gourd. 



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