XIV 
SPINNERS WHO LIVE IN THE GROUND 
fYTH Spinners = swinging 
their hammocks in the 
corners of our houses, 
okie on our lawns, building lace 
palaces in our gardens, and flying 
through the air, no one will be sur- 
prised to learn that some members of © 
this interesting family, like the ancient 
cave-dwellers, make their homes in the 
ground. 
Some of the ground-spiders have 
rather crude dwellings. A little hol- 
low, an inch or less in depth, under a 
dead leaf, is all the home that our 
common black running spider pos- 
sesses. Indeed, some of these runners 
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