






VI 
MORE ABOUT MRS. EPEIRA’S HOUSE 
AND ITS USE 
OU have not forgotten that 
Mrs. Epeira keeps two kinds 
of silk stored away inher 
spinning-machine. She uses both 
kinds in building her pretty wheel 
house. The foundation, spokes, hub, 
and scaffolding are all of the same 
kind, while the closely woven spiral is 
of a vastly different sort. 
Place your finger on one of the 
spiral threads. It sticks fast, and as 
you draw it away the thread stretches 
like a piece of rubber to three or four 

** It looks like a string 
46 
of tiny beads”’ 

