. Four feet, two feet, and no feet; or, Furry and feathery pets, and how they live. Animal behavior. MACHINES THAT ^Ji^EP AXD F^LY. 121 the worms make are wound with the silk. Men take them to factories, where t'hey are un- wound and made into the beau- tiful silks you and your mother Avear. The spider is also a spinner. IIis thread is much finer than the silk-worm's. It is made up of a great many threads, just like a rope of many strands. This is the spider's rope that he walks on. He often swings on it, too, to see how strong it is. Did you ever see a spider drop from some high place? How hi
. Four feet, two feet, and no feet; or, Furry and feathery pets, and how they live. Animal behavior. MACHINES THAT ^Ji^EP AXD F^LY. 121 the worms make are wound with the silk. Men take them to factories, where t'hey are un- wound and made into the beau- tiful silks you and your mother Avear. The spider is also a spinner. IIis thread is much finer than the silk-worm's. It is made up of a great many threads, just like a rope of many strands. This is the spider's rope that he walks on. He often swings on it, too, to see how strong it is. Did you ever see a spider drop from some high place? How his spinning-machine must work! The wasp makes his paper nest out of fibres of wood.' He picks them off with his strange little teeth, given him for the purpose, and gathers them into a neat bundle. When he has enough he makes them into a soft pulp -= in some strange way. This pulp is very much like that used by men in making our paper. Very likely the wasps taught them how, because they are the oldest paper-makers in the world. This pulp he weaves into the paper that forms his nest. You must look for one, and see how much it is like the common brown paper we use to wi-ap bundles in. The wasps work together, so that it takes but a very little time to build a Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe, 1850-1943. Boston, Estes and Lauriat
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