Baby Spinners, Continued 
or chews away on a beetle, according 
to her usual habit. 
The eggs hatch in about two weeks, 
but the babies are shut up within their 
case and cannot get out. If you wish 
to see them in this stage of their exist- 
ence, you must cut a hole in their tan 
cradle and let them out. Never were 
there more cunning babes. They look 
like bits of transparent wax wriggling 
about on their cream-colored legs. 
Now and then they turn their faces 
toward you, and you see their eyes, 
like tiny garnets set in the wax. 
But remember that you have cut 
their case and let them out before they 
were ready. If left alone, they change 
their waxen robes for tan-colored ones 
before their mother cuts a hole in their 
cradle and sets them free. 
They scramble out and gather like 
a swarm of bees around their empty 
cradle, each having a thread fastened 
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