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She is now ready to put in the 
spokes, for this house of silk is to be 
in the form of a wheel. She hurries 
down from c, stops at the middle, and 
places a dot of white silk. This is to 
mark the hub of her wheel. Back to 
e she clambers, spinning as she goes. 
When she reaches e she runs down 
the: line ab, fastening the new line at 
1, and the first spoke is made. Down 
to the centre she flies on this, and back 
again with spoke number 2. Back 
and forth, up and down, this busy lit- 
tle worker glides till all the spokes are 
in. Every now and then she stops at 
the centre to make her hub larger and 
stronger by fastening a disk of silk to 
the spokes already made. 
You must not think that she makes 
the spokes one after another, just as 
they come. She is too wise to do 
that. Sometimes she makes two very 
far apart, as 2 and 3, or she goes up d 
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