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minute mobile fingers, and each of these is beset with 

 hairlike tubes from the openings of which the silk is drawn 

 from the glands with which the tubes communicate. Some 

 of the tubes are much larger than others, and from these 



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the strong radial lines of the web are spun. These lines 

 are double or sometimes quadruple, consisting of two or 

 four threads lying side by side ; but they do not consist, 

 as is sometimes stated, of hundreds or thousands of strands. 

 To connect these stout lines to the twigs or other objects 



