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THE INVENTION OF THE CLOTH LOOM
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do this thing, but he could not get it a good shape and he said, "Yet the spider gets a shape in his cloth. I will go and ask him again about this thing." And he went to the spider, and took him offering, and said: "Oh, my lord, teach me more things." And he sat and watched him for many days.LOOM AT EQUETTA.
LOOM AT EQUETTA.
By and by he saw more (his eyes were opened) and he saw the spider made his net on sticks, and so he went home and got fine bush rope that he had collected, and taken there, to make his game nets with, and he brought them to the bush near the spider, and fixing the strings on to the bush he made a new net and he got shape into it, and he made more nets