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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core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: historical documents, but hides her actions, especially the laying,
which I estimate approximately to take place in October. The sum
total of the eggs is divided into five or six small, flat,
lentiform pockets, which, taken together, occupy the greater part
of the maternal home. These capsules have each their own
partition-wall of superb white satin, but they are so closely
soldered, both together and to the floor of the house, that it is
impossible to part them without tearing them, impossible,
therefore, to obtain them separately. The eggs in all amount to
about a hundred.
The mother sits upon the heap of pockets with the same devotion as
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