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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: The Tarantula is an accomplished desnucador. It remained to me to
confirm the open-air experiment with experiments in the privacy of
my study. I therefore got together a menagerie of these poisonous
Spiders, so as to judge of the virulence of their venom and its
effect according to the part of the body injured by the fangs. A
dozen bottles and test-tubes received the prisoners, whom I
captured by the methods known to the reader. To one inclined to
scream at the sight of a Spider, my study, filled with odious
Lycosae, would have presented a very uncanny appearance.
Though the Tarantula scorns or rather fears to attack an adversary
placed in her presence in a bottle, she scarcely hesitates to bite
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