The Baby Spinners 
sidered, even Mrs. Jumper must have 
a house. You will find her looking 
for a building place early in June. 
Sometimes she chooses the side of 
a wall in the barn or coal shed, often 
the inner surface of loose bark on 
posts or old logs. Now and then she 
makes a pocket out of a leaf by stitch- 
ing its edges fast together and builds 
her house in that. 
The house is a very pretty one, 
made out of the whitest silk fabric 
imaginable. It usually measures about 
an inch and a half in length by an 
inch in breadth. Mrs. Jumper always 
has two doors in this dainty little 
dwelling, so if an enemy enters at one 
she may escape at the other. Within 
this house she deposits her eggs in a 
little cradle which she swings fast to 
the wall. For the present her hunt- 
ing expeditions are at an end. She 
stays at home, carefully watching and 
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