52 THE LIFE OF AN INSECT. 



or branches, none can be found, we can almost 

 certainly promise success if the reader will care- 

 fully and patiently 

 search the angles of 

 the garden walls, par- 

 ticularly if he has 

 noticed in the pre- 

 ceding autumn many 

 ^ f tne beautiful webs 



of the garden-spider. 

 There, in some shel- 

 tered recess, where 

 the pattering rain- 

 drops may be heard, 



Nestsof Garden-Spider. ^ ^^ venture j^ 



and where few eyes would detect them, may be 

 found little round yellow balls, of the size of a 

 small cherry, made of the most beautiful golden- 

 coloured silk, and attached by a slender stalk to 

 the wall, or perhaps, to a twig. Sometimes they 

 exhibit the more elegant and curious appearance 

 shown in the figure on the next page, resembling 

 an inverted wine-glass or pear. 



On taking our prize in-doors, by the aid of a 

 very sharp penknife we may succeed in cutting it 

 smoothly open, and in turning out some of the deli- 



