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 ri^t 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 acdon and die need for preserx^ng 

 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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