How She Finds Out Things 
They are arranged as you see in the 
diagram, two on the top of her head, 
two in front just above the mandibles, 
and two very close together at each 
outer corner of the cephalo-thorax. 
It is a good thing for Mrs. 
Epeira that her eyes are scattered 
about so that she can see in every 4s. Epeira’s eyes 
direction, for you know she can never 
turn her head around to see what is 
going on behind her. 
These tiny eyes are of the kind called 
simple eyes. They cannot see long 
distances, as the wonderful compound 
eyes of the flies and other insects can. 
They are near-sighted; that is, they 
can see only those objects that are 
within a few inches, or at best a foot 
of Mrs. Epeira’s body. They never 
give her the image of an entire object 
at one time. When you come near 
the little Spinner, she sees but a small 
portion of you, yet that is enough 
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