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CHAPTER XXII.

Old Farm Fairies: a Summer Campaign in Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies · Henry C. McCook — chapter 49 of 58 · ~135 words · public domain

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=Note A, p. 216.=--The habits and spinning work of a common Orbweaver Epeira labyrinthea are personified in the Pixie jailer Labyrinthea.

=Note B, p. 218.=--The male spiders of Orbweavers when they "would a-wooing go," hang around the edge of the orbweb, and are not always received kindly. Sometimes, indeed, they are eaten.

=Note C, p. 220.=--"Hyptiotes." The Triangle Spider, Hyptiotes cavatus HENTZ. Its snare and mode of capturing prey are most interesting and ingenious.

=Note D, p. 223.=--This rigidity of limbs is not exaggerated, and is common to both old and young of this species.

=Note E, p. 226.=--The Labyrinth spider makes several cocoons, strung together as the several figures show. Each one is made of two circular caps united at the edges, so that Brownie Dodge could thus open an edge and peep out.

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