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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: wider lists afforded by the bottle. Utterly timid once she is away
from home, the Spider obstinately refuses the battle; nor will the
Bumble-bee, giddy though she be, think of striking the first blow.
I abandon experiments in my study.
We must go direct to the spot and force the duel upon the
Tarantula, who is full of pluck in her own stronghold. Only,
instead of the Bumble-bee, who enters the burrow and conceals her
death from our eyes, it is necessary to substitute another
adversary, less inclined to penetrate underground. There abounds
in the garden, at this moment, on the flowers of the common clary,
one of the largest and most powerful Bees that haunt my district,
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