The child's book of nature for the use of families and schools : intended to aid mothers and teachers in training children in the observation of nature . There are some animalsthat have machinery formaking things. All thesilk that is used in theworld is made by silk-worm has a regu-lar set of machinery forspinning silk. It winds itup as it spins it. Thenman unwinds it, and makesa great variety of beau-tiful fabrics with this silkthread. The spinning machineryof the spider is much finerthan that of the thread which he spinsis made up of a multitude of threads, each one o
The child's book of nature for the use of families and schools : intended to aid mothers and teachers in training children in the observation of nature . There are some animalsthat have machinery formaking things. All thesilk that is used in theworld is made by silk-worm has a regu-lar set of machinery forspinning silk. It winds itup as it spins it. Thenman unwinds it, and makesa great variety of beau-tiful fabrics with this silkthread. The spinning machineryof the spider is much finerthan that of the thread which he spinsis made up of a multitude of threads, each one of these comingout from an exceedingly small hole in the spiders body. Youknow that there is a large number of fibres or threads in a it is with the spiders rope, for his thread that you see, smallas it is, is a rope to him. It is a rope that he walks on like arope-dancer; and you may sometimes see him swinging upon , too, he lets himself down from some height, spin-ning the rope that holds him as he goes dowrn. When he doesthis his spinning machine must work very briskly. The wasp has a paper factory in him. He makes his paper. 122 MOKE ABOUT THE TOOLS OF ANIMALS. Paper-making of the wasp. Teeth. Pumps of some animals. out of fibres of wood, which he picks off, I suppose with histeeth, and gathers them into a bundle. lie makes this into asoft pulp in some way ; then, from this, he makes the paper withwhich he builds his nest. It is very much, you know, like thecommon brown paper that man makes. The wasps work incompanies, and though each one can make but little paper, theyall together make their nest in a very little time. The pulpfrom which they make their paper is very much like the pulpfrom which man makes paper, and which you may see any timein the large tubs or vats of a paper factory. This pulp is gener-ally made from rags ground up fine, but lately wood has beenmuch used. Perhaps the hint was taken from the wasps, whowere the earliest paper-makers in
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