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pearance to the shrubs, vines, and flower-bor- 

 ders. They may serve some subtle purpose be- 

 sides catching flies, these hordes of weavers, big 

 and little, white and brown. But their dust and 

 leaf and insect and pollen-strewn shuttles are 

 certainly unclean. The sparrow will not walk 

 into their parlor, and brushing away the webs 

 or drenching them with the hose is merely tem- 

 porary. There is but one way to treat the Sep- 

 tember spider to follow the example of the 

 mistress of the house, and kill him, cruel as it 

 may appear. 



