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The Wonders of Instinct

CHAPTER 10
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The strength of the snareling will decide the plan of campaign.

Let us first suppose the usual case, that of an average head of game, a Moth or Fly of some sort.

Facing her prisoner, the Spider contracts her abdomen slightly and touches the insect for a moment with the end of her spinnerets; then, with her front tarsi, she sets her victim spinning.

The Squirrel, in the moving cylinder of his cage, does not display a more graceful or nimbler dexterity.

A cross-bar of the sticky spiral serves as an axis for the tiny machine, which turns, turns swiftly, like a spit.


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