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SOME OF MRS. EPEIRA’S NEIGHBORS 
OT far away from Mrs. Epe- 
ira’s home lives one of her 
relatives, Mrs. Ar-gi-0-pe, 
the Autumn Spider. She does not 
choose as high nor as open a position 
for her house as her pink-gowned 
neighbor does. She places it down 
among the bushes, where it is partially 
concealed by the stems and leaves. 
She has a good reason for this; for she 
does not possess a dainty bell-chamber 
to which she can hasten whenever she 
wishes to keep out of the way of pry- 
ing eyes. One apartment is all that 
she has in her house. She eats and 
sleeps and spends all her time in her 
large lacy room of silk. We do not 
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