Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 87
refully set to work to dig away A TUG OF WAR. 74 THE TRAP-DOOR SPIDER. [Nov. the earth around the long, cylindrical nest,which you know extends below that funny door.Even this does not drive the spider to desert herhome. Actual violence must be employed be-fore this faithful freeholder will yield… … *>•#-- KEEPING OPEN HOUSE. out upon you, brave and determined in her de-fense of her home, the spider is no sooner com-pelled to desert her post than a total changecomes over her. Though herself uninjured, sheremains fixed on the spot whence her burrowhas been removed, or else moves slowly…
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