NATURALISTS CABINET. 



The garden spider spins in a different manner. 



fully watched, in the belly. Through this it 

 draws all its limbs, and leaves the old covering 

 hanging to the cord that sustained it during the 

 operation. 



As spiders often prey upon each other, they 

 have been supposed to be both male and fe- 

 male ; but this is contradicted by Lister, who 

 asserts that the males are much less than the fe- 

 males. 



The garden spider spins her web in a different 



manner from the house spider, yet it is not per- 



formed with less art. When desirous of flitting 



from one place to another, she fixes one end of 



a thread to the place where she stands, and then 



withher hind paws draws out several other threads 



from the nipples, which being lengthened out 



and driven by the wind to some neighboring tree 



or other object, are by their natural clamminess 



fixed to it. When she finds that these are fast- 



ened, she makes of them a bridge, on which she 



can pass or repass at pleasure. This -done, she 



renders the thread still thicker by spinning 



others to it; from this thread she often descends 



by spinning downward to the ground. The 



thread formed by the latter operation she fixes 



to some atone, plant, or other substance. She 



re-ascends to the first thread, and at a little dis- 



tance from the second begins a third, which she 



fixes in the same manner. She now strengthens 



all the three threads, and, beginning at one of 



the comers, weaves across, and at last forms a 



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