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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: is nearly that of a Hen's egg. The cabin is open at either end.
The front-entrance broadens into a gallery; the back-entrance
tapers into a funnel-neck. I fail to see the object of this neck.
As for the opening in front, which is wider, this is, beyond a
doubt, a victualling-door. I see the Spider, at intervals,
standing here on the look-out for the Locust, whom she consumes
outside, taking care not to soil the spotless sanctuary with
corpses.
The structure of the nest is not without a certain similarity to
that of the home occupied during the hunting-season. The passage
at the back represents the funnel-neck, that ran almost down to the
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