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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: Let us now look at the watch-tower of the nest. The mother is
still there, but this time lifeless. The devoted creature has
known the delight of seeing her family born; she has assisted the
weaklings through the trap-door; and, when her duty was done, very
gently she died. The Hen does not reach this height of self-
abnegation.
Other Spiders do better still, as, for instance, the Narbonne
Lycosa, or Black-bellied Tarantula (Lycosa narbonnensis, WALCK.),
whose prowess has been described in an earlier chapter. The reader
will remember her burrow, her pit of a bottle-neck's width, dug in
the pebbly soil beloved by the lavender and the thyme. The mouth
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