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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 424

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at lived underwater by carrying downbubbles of air with it.Its home, too, might becalled a queer diving-bell, as may be seenfrom the illustration. There are certain antsthat show quite asmuch intelligence as thespider, and the driverants not only buildboats, but launch them,too ; only, these… … THE SPIDER THAT LIVES UNDER WATER. 894 SOME CURIOUS MARINERS. [October, while chickens, lizards, and other animals in West-ern Africa flee from them in terror. To protectthemselves from the heat they erect arches underwhich numerous armies of them pass in safety.

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