


The Spinner Family 
are to talk about one member of the 
family, we shall call her Agelena. 
Mrs. Agelena does not carry her 
tent about and pitch it where she 
chooses, as you do when you go camp- 
ing in the summer time. But she 
decides where it is to be, and then 
skilfully sets about weaving the cloth 
and pitching the tent at the same time. 
She fastens her warp to the blades 
of grass on every side, then she- works 
in the woof by walking rapidly back 
and forth and spinning as she goes. 
When the tent cover is of sufficient 
_ thickness she fastens numerous -guy 
ropes to the blades of grass both 
above and below. She has no inten- 
tion of having her tent blow away 
because of insecure fastenings. 
When we look closely we see that 
after all this is no ordinary tent. But 
then you would not expect a Spinner 
to make an ordinary one, would you? 
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