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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: is generated. If this column catch the threads, my Spiders ought
to rise to the ceiling of the room.
The curious ascent does, in fact, take place. Unfortunately, my
troop, which has been greatly reduced by the number of departures
through the window, does not lend itself to prolonged experiment.
We must begin again.
The next morning, on the same yucca, I gather the second family, as
numerous as the first. Yesterday's preparations are repeated. My
legion of Spiders first weaves a divergent framework between the
top of the brushwood placed at the emigrants' disposal and the edge
of the table. Five or six hundred wee beasties swarm all over this
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