

The Building of her House 
She has reached that drooping leaf 
at 6, ten feet away from her starting- 
point. She pauses an instant to fasten 
her new thread, and then glides back 
adding another strand to her silk rope. 
She repeats this several times, till the 
line is strong enough to bear her 
weight without swaying. 
On the fifth trip she stops a moment 
near the centre of the line to leave a 
small wad of white silk. When she 
reaches this dot on her way back she 
pauses, and then recklessly drops, 
swinging like a pendulum on the end 
of the thread she is spinning. She 
alights on a leaf at d, fastens her 
thread, and at once clambers back to e. 
This line is now strengthened just as 
the first one was. Now she races down 
to e and drops again, swinging over 
to d, then away to g and A, repeating 
the same exploits, till at last the frame- 
work of her foundation is complete. 
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