. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers; . A QUEER SPIDERS NEST. Sepicuibcr Sth BOUT two summers ago a ladybrought me a natural historyspecimen which was somethingof a puzzle to her and the restof her household. I have brought you a queer spi-ders nest, said she. I suppose youhave seen lots of them, but I never saw one like it be-fore. It fell from the folds of a silk dress, which I wastaking from the closet, and broke, but I gathered upthe pieces and the spiders, which all seemed to havebeen killed by the fall, and here are the fragments. I opene
. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers; . A QUEER SPIDERS NEST. Sepicuibcr Sth BOUT two summers ago a ladybrought me a natural historyspecimen which was somethingof a puzzle to her and the restof her household. I have brought you a queer spi-ders nest, said she. I suppose youhave seen lots of them, but I never saw one like it be-fore. It fell from the folds of a silk dress, which I wastaking from the closet, and broke, but I gathered upthe pieces and the spiders, which all seemed to havebeen killed by the fall, and here are the fragments. I opened the handkerchief in which the nest wasbrought, and disclosed what appeared to be an irregularlump of mud. One side of it bore a perfect cast of thesilk gros-grain fabric — a perfect mould, easily identifiedas from silk. The broken portion disclosed a smoothcavity with a few spiders, apparently dead, within it,and, with the number of others to be seen in the debris,showing that the cell had originally contained no lessthan sixteen spiders, varying in size, but all of the same A QUEER spiders NEST 15; sp
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