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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: hardly troubles, whether one youngster fall from his place, or six,
or all of them. She waits impassively for the victims of the
mishap to get out of their own difficulty, which they do, for that
matter, and very nimbly.
I sweep the whole family from the back of one of my boarders with a
hair-pencil. Not a sign of emotion, not an attempt at search on
the part of the denuded one. After trotting about a little on the
sand, the dislodged youngsters find, these here, those there, one
or other of the mother's legs, spread wide in a circle. By means
of these climbing-poles, they swarm to the top and soon the dorsal
group resumes its original form. Not one of the lot is missing.
The Life of the Spider |
