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Updated: May 16, 2025
At last I reached Dr Rolt's house and rang the surgery bell as hard as I could pull. It was some time before the door was opened by a sleepy maid-servant, who had evidently just hurried on her clothes. "Mother wants the doctor very badly," I exclaimed. "Ask him, please, to come at once." "The doctor can't come. He's away from home, in London," answered the girl. "You'd better run on to Dr Hunt's.
"On this hint, he connected a small reel with the steam-engine of the factory in which he is occupied, and putting it in motion, at the rate of 150 feet per minute, found that the spider would thus continue to afford an unbroken thread during from three to five minutes. The specimen of this silk, which accompanies Mr. Rolt's communication, was wound off from twenty-four spiders in about two hours.
Rolt's experiments has been the garden spider, Aranea diadema, the webs of which, in autumn, are so conspicuous on the surface of shrubs and in other similar situations.
'The police have been down at Rolt's stupid fellow left old gander's feet about Mrs. Barker swore to 'em 'cause he'd had so many kicks and bites on common Jesse's took up and peached I've been hiding about all night precious cold it was, and just waiting, you see, to wish you good-bye. Harold, very much shocked, could have dispensed with his farewells, nor did he like the look of his eyes.
And again: "Such are, in brief, the bases of what Newman Weeks, Sarah Horton, Deborah Butler, and the associated brethren, proclaimed in Rolt's Hall as the new covenant!" If he was summing up an account of the teaching of Plato or St. Paul, Mr. Hepworth Dixon could not be more earnestly reverential.
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