Building the Web 201 



Let us go every evening, step by step, from 

 one border of tall rosemaries to the next. Should 

 things move too slowly, we will sit down at the 

 foot of the shrubs, opposite the rope-yard, where 

 the light falls favourably, and watch with un- 

 wearying attention. Each trip will be good for 

 a fact that fills some gap in the ideas already 

 gathered. To appoint one's self, in this way, 

 an inspector of Spiders' webs, for many years 

 in succession and for long seasons, means 

 joining a not overcrowded profession, I admit. 

 Heaven knows, it does not enable one to put 

 money by ! No matter : the meditative mind 

 returns from that school fully satisfied. 



To describe the separate progress of the work 

 in the case of each of the six Epeirse mentioned 

 would be a useless repetition: all six employ 

 the same methods and weave similar webs, save 

 for certain details that shall be set forth later. 

 I will, therefore, sum up in the aggregate the 

 particulars supplied by one or other of them. 



My subjects, in the first instance, are young 

 and boast but a slight corporation, very far 

 removed from what it will be in the late autumn. 

 The belly, the wallet containing the rope- works, 



