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she settles down, tucks her legs up 
under her, draws her cephalo-thorax 
close to her abdomen, and there she 
is, looking just as much like a ball of 
dirt as those hanging above and below 
her. What a clever little body she is 
to find such an ingenious method to 
hide from her enemies. 
Not far away, in the lower branches 
of a cherry tree, another hunchback 
has her home. Part of her founda- 
tion threads are fastened to two dead 
branches, that have been sawed off 
two or three feet from the trunk of 
the tree. The web is hung neither ver- 
tically nor horizontally, but obliquely. 
Of all the lace houses in the garden, 
this one is most beautiful in form and 
workmanship. 
The owner of this exquisite home 
is such a queer-looking little body 

“4easailr that you would never suspect her 
would climb 
amas” Of belonging to the Spinner family. 
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