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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ... which all seemed to have been killed by the fall, and here are the fragments." I opened the handkerchief in which the nest was brought, and disclosed what appeared to be an irregular lump of mud. One side of it bore a perfect cast of the silk gros-grain fabric--a perfect mould, easily identified as from silk. The broken portion disclosed a smooth cavity with a few spiders, apparently dead, within it, and, with the number of others to be seen in the debris, show ing that the cell had originally contained no less than sixteen spiders, varying in size, but all of the same species. The lump of mud contained two other cells, each of which was similarly packed with the spiders, one of them yielding seventeen individuals. All of them were in the same limp and lifeless condition. But a closer examination of the mass revealed the secret of our queer spider nest. After a moment's search I brought to light in one of the cells a tiny egg, and in the second a small white grub in the act of finishing a meal from the mutilated remains of the spiders. "It is perfectly plain, don't you see," said I, " that this plump larva, and not the spider, is the real lord of the manor, and that all the spider prisoners did the spiders get there? Have they deliberately packed themselves here in this old wasp nest to be eaten up?" "Ah, then, you knew it was a wasp nest, did you?" "Why, of course," she replied. "It didn't occur to me at first, but I have often seen the same sort of mud nests on the beams of my garret; but never heard of the old ones being used by spiders. And.: then the spiders are all dead, and are not like any spiders that I have ever seen; and then there is that little worm and all. I don't understand the thing a bit.&...

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Excerpt from Sharp Eyes a Rambler's Calendar of Fifty-Two Weeks Among Insects, Birds and Flowers, 1896These letters have embraced questions, I had almost said, upon every conceivable subject of zoology; ques tions which frequently would have taxed the erudition of Humboldt himself, to say nothing of an occasional inquiry which would as certainly for the moment have annihilated his equanimity.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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