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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. 1848 Excerpt: ...of the recess of the window, but on the outside. He pulled down the sash of the window, and mounted a chair, that he might look at it more closely; and he called Robert and Mary to see how nicely it was fitted in, and fastened to the wall by silken threads. " I dare say it is the cocoon of some caterpillar," said Mary; " for it is very much like what my silkworms spin." Henry thought it was too late in the season for any insect to be going through its changes, and he therefore referred to his papa to know what this ball really was. " It is the nest of the garden spider," said his father; " and contains, no doubt, a great number of eggs. A friend of mine kept one of these nests all the winter, and early in the spring there came out ninety-six spiders, so small as to be mere black specks on the silken ball, and yet so perfect and active, that they immediately began to spin delicate little webs over the surface of the glass vessel in which they were confined." " May we take down this nest, and keep it, " You had better leave it where it is. We have plenty of spiders in our own garden and greenhouse, and you will be sure to find one of these nests when we go home. And this reminds me that your mamma made a little sketch of a spider's nest, which was snugly placed under a shelf, close to our greenhouse door. Run and ask her if it is in the sketchbook she brought here." Mary ran to find her mamma, and soon returned, showing the drawing represented in the preceding page. " I dare say it is the cocoon of the very spider we watched so long while it was making its web," said Henry. " There were two or three garden spiders in the greenhouse, and one of them was so large that we called him our ' priz...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781236395245
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 48
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1236395247
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 104 gr

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