Rightly considered, a spider's web is a most curious as well as a- most beautiful thing. Tho majority of children sunposo that tho spider's web is pulled out of his mouth, and that tho littlo insect has a large reel of tho stuff in his stomach, and that ho could almost instantly add foot, yards, or rods to the roll. Tho facts are that tho spiders have a regular spinning machine, a sot of tiny tubes, at the far end of the body, and that tho threads aro nothing more or less than a white sticky fluid, which hardens as soon as it comes in contact with the air. Horrings caught by the Lowostoft drifter Zoo during one night's fishing wero sold at Grimsby for £317.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 43, 14 November 1907, Page 8
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126Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 43, 14 November 1907, Page 8
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