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FIG. 127. — LEAF-NEST OF TUE SUAMKOCK SPIDER. 

 (EPEIRA TRIFOLIUM.) 



my tent upon the lawn and used it continually for an 

 office and outdoor library, so that by the physician's 

 advice I might be as much as possiljle in the open air. 

 My tent is seized — a house or shelter of various pieces 

 of canvas wrought together by the tailor's craft. But 

 what will you do with it if you refuse to allow the 

 spider's nest a place among sewed structures because it 

 is a tent and not a garment ?" (Fig. 127.) 



