With a zeal which even the additional labour laid upon her does not easily weary, she removes the mildew from the alien dung-balls, which far exceed the regular nests in number; she gently scrapes and polishes and repairs them; she listens attentively and enquires by ear into each nurseling's progress.

Her real collection could not receive greater care.

Her own family or another's: it is all one to her.
The Lycosa is equally indifferent.

I take a hair-pencil and sweep the living burden from one of my Spiders, making it fall close to another covered with her little ones.

The evicted youngsters scamper about, find the new mother's legs outspread, nimbly clamber up these and mount on the back of the obliging creature, who quietly lets them have their way.