The Garden Spiders: Building the Web 



turns now her right side, now her left to the 

 centre of the coil. Well, as we have said, it 

 is always with the inner hind-leg, the leg 

 nearer the centre, that is to say, in some cases 

 the right and in some cases the left leg, that 

 she places the thread in position, an exceed- 

 ingly delicate operation calling for the dis- 

 play of exquisite skill, because of the quickness 

 of the action and the need for preserving 

 strictly equal distances. Any one seeing this 

 leg working with such extreme precision, the 

 right leg to-day, the left to-morrow, be- 

 comes convinced that the Epeira is highly 

 ambidextrous. 



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