Spinners who Live in the Ground 
She has a near relative who builds a 
much more elaborate house than she 
does. 
This is the turret-builder. She is 
not content to make the entrance to 
her home of leaves and straws si on 
and other miscellaneous mat-- 
ter. She collects a number a 
of small round sticks, and 
out of these builds a tower. 
She puts her sticks together i in ?™ 
much the same way that our _-- leg 
grandfathers did when they 7# ¢ab» 
built their log cabins years and . eal 
years ago. This skilful builder Zurret 
digs a eel under her tower ; with the 
dirt from this she makes a mortar and 
plasters her tower on the inside. She 
has already fastened the sticks together 
with cords of silk. When the plaster- 
ing is done she covers the wall with a 
drapery of silk threads. The towers 
vary in height from a little over an 
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