NATURAL HISTORY. 



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hand. Here is a picture which shows the nest 

 open, and another of it shut ; and there is a 

 drawing of the spider, too. 



A, the Nest shut ; B, the Nest open ; 0, the Spider ; D, the Eyes, mag- 

 nified; E, F, Parts of the Foot aad Claw magnified. 



A gentleman says, in a book which he wrote 

 about insects, that he once broke one of these 

 doors off, to see what the spider would do." 

 " And what did she do, Uncle Philip ?" 

 " She made another door ; but took very 

 good care not to put any hinge to it, for fear 



