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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: her well? Insert a thin straw into the burrow and move it about.
Uneasy as to what is happening above, the recluse hastens to climb
up and stops, in a threatening attitude, at some distance from the
orifice. You see her eight eyes gleaming like diamonds in the
dark; you see her powerful poison-fangs yawning, ready to bite. He
who is not accustomed to the sight of this horror, rising from
under the ground, cannot suppress a shiver. B-r-r-r-r! Let us
leave the beast alone.
Chance, a poor stand-by, sometimes contrives very well. At the
beginning of the month of August, the children call me to the far
side of the enclosure, rejoicing in a find which they have made
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