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The Ground Spiders spend the win- 
ter almost exactly as their friends the 
Tent-makers do, with this exception: 
many of them slip into a crevice and 
go to sleep, without taking the trouble 
to weave a blanket with which to 
cover up. ‘Those that live in tunnels 
in the ground usually spend the win- 
ter in these underground chambers. 
A few dig new holes into which they 
nestle down to sleep. 
Mrs. House-Spider is really the 
greatest stay-at-home of all the Spin- 
ners. You remember that during the 
entire summer she hung, back down- 
ward, in her wonderful trestlework 
house. Here, too, she swung her 
dainty cradles and reared her thou- 
sand and one children. And now that 
winter has come, and all the cradles 
except one or two are empty, she 
draws her feet up close to her body, 
and hangs in the selfsame place, sleep- 
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