How the Spinners spend the Winter 
ing the days and weeks away. Ifyou 
disturb her, she lazily climbs a step or 
two higher in the trestle-walled room, 
and immediately drops to sleep again. 
At the earliest touch of spring, the 
Spinners are awake, and soon begin 
bustling about in search of locations 
for their summer homes. Not many | 
of them begin to build, however, until 
the latter part of April or the first of 
May. | 
Now and then a warm sunshiny day 
in the middle of winter tricks the 
Spinners into thinking that spring has 
arrived. ‘They rush out to find a 
rather cool reception. You may often 
see these deluded little creatures creep- 
ing around over the snow, and finally 
returning, chilled and hungry, to their 
winter quarters to finish their naps. 
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