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HOME STUDIES IN NATURE. 



GEOMETRIC WEB OF GARDEjN-SPIDER 

 (ARfilOPF.). 



and hold its wings down with 



her legs, and pierce it with her 



sharp mandibles until it was dead. 



Among country people there is 



much superstitions dread of spiders; 



and the more ignorant, the greater the 



superstition. The colored people in Florida 



