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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: inches wide, without meeting the Tarantula. I renewed the
operation in other burrows, always with the same want of success; I
really wanted a pickaxe to achieve my object, but I was too far
from any kind of house. I was obliged to change my plan of attack
and I resorted to craft. Necessity, they say, is the mother of
invention.
'It occurred to me to take a stalk, topped with its spikelet, by
way of a bait, and to rub and move it gently at the orifice of the
burrow. I soon saw that the Lycosa's attention and desires were
roused. Attracted by the bait, she came with measured steps
towards the spikelet. I withdrew it in good time a little outside
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