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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: twenty yards of gummy thread. The more skilful Silky Epeira
produces thirty. Well, during two months, the Angular Epeira, my
neighbour, renewed her snare nearly every evening. During that
period, she manufactured something like three-quarters of a mile of
this tubular thread, rolled into a tight twist and bulging with
glue.
I should like an anatomist endowed with better implements than mine
and with less tired eyesight to explain to us the work of the
marvellous rope-yard. How is the silky matter moulded into a
capillary tube? How is this tube filled with glue and tightly
twisted? And how does this same wire-mill also turn out plain
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