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elastic, so ethereal, and yet strong enough to entangle a 

 good-sized insect. How knowing seems the little worker, 

 as when, the web and his den of concealment being com- 

 pleted, he spins a strong cable from the centre of the web 

 to the entrance of his watch-tower. Then, when a trem- 



SPIDER WEB AND MCLE 



bling of his aerial spans warns him of a capture, how eagerly 

 he seizes his master cable and jerks away on it, thus vi- 

 brating the whole structure and making more certain the 

 confusion of his victim. 



What is more interesting than to see a great yellow 

 garden-spider, hanging head downward in the centre of his 



