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Title
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A Pair of Spiderlings
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Date
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1898
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Creator
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Elizabeth Van Sant
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Rights
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ing together in a bunch, and we were not a little puszled to
know how to “get them back. But the problem was soon solved,
for in walking about Diana cane across the 2ittle squirming
ball. She seemed to recognize them, and immediately gathered
and held them beneath her with her feet. One by one they
crawled up her legs and onto her back. She kept them moving
by occasionally touching then with her pairs.
‘The next day we took Diana and her brood to the photo-
graph gallery. We were no longer alarmed when a bunch of the
young fel1 off. We gently raised then on » hat pin end put
them on her back and they soon fastened themselves. In the
short time she had been in our possession Diana haa not grom
accustomed to being handled, and by the time we had gotten
her out of the cage and the surroundings arranged she was 80
restless that it was a difficult matter to get her picture.
Time after time when everything wes ready for the exposure
Diana would walk out of the field and would not again become
quiet for some minutes, But the novelty of his subject nade
the photographer as anxious as ourselves to get a good pic-
ture, and after a half hour of repeated efforts he secured two,
with the family on her back and the empty coccon still attached
to her epinnerets.
Por ten days the brood stayed on the mother's back, and
then began to scatter. Tho lest left her on the seventeenth
day. ‘They had grow considerably during this time, although
they had apparently eaten nothing. There were a few dead
