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THE SPIDERS.
THE NARBONNE LYCOSA, OR BLACK-BELLIED TARANTULA.
THE BURROW.
Michelet has told us how, as a printer's apprentice in a cellar, he established amicable relations with a Spider.

(Jules Michelet (1798-1874), author of "L'Oiseau" and "L'Insecte," in addition to the historical works for which he is chiefly known.

As a lad, he helped his father, a printer by trade, in setting type .-- Translator's Note.) At a certain hour of the day, a ray of sunlight would glint through the window of the gloomy workshop and light up the little compositor's case.

Then his eight-legged neighbour would come down from her web and on the edge of the case take her share of the sunshine.