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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: orange-coloured beads, which, glued together, form a globule the
size of a pea. This is the treasure to be defended against the
asperities of the winter.
Now that we know the structure of the work, let us try to see in
what manner the spinstress sets about it. The observation is not
an easy one, for the Banded Epeira is a night-worker. She needs
nocturnal quiet in order not to go astray amid the complicated
rules that guide her industry. Now and again, at very early hours
in the morning, I have happened to catch her working, which enables
me to sum up the progress of the operations.
My subjects are busy in their bell-shaped cages, at about the
The Life of the Spider |
