


The Spinner Family 
manage to place the eggs on it with- 
out having every one of them fall 
down to the ground? She skilfully 
weaves a meshwork of loops and in 
these carefully drops the eggs. When 
they are all in she covers them with a 
warm blanket, which she tucks in on 
every side. When this is done she 
goes away, leaving them to the mercies 
of Dame Fortune. The eggs hatch 
during the winter, but the babies stay 
in their warm cradle until early spring, 
when they come forth to battle with 
the world and to build dainty wheel 
houses with bell chambers attached, 
just as their mother did the summer 
before. 
You remember that Mrs. Jumping- 
spider does not build a house, but 
when she is not searching for food 
takes possession of any crack or crev- 
ice that may offer itself, and lives in 
that. When babies are to be con- 
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