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<DIV>Near the beginning of ch. V:</DIV>
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will see that three elderly men at a little distance from each other run spiders
along the pavement as if the street were their parlour”</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN
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*very* mysterious. </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN
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</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Neverow suggests that
t</SPAN>he ‘men, who are spaced so that they will not compete with one another,
are selling mechanical toys to passersby, probably windup penny toys
manufactured in Germany.’ (<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">JR</I> 2008:
229)</DIV>
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<DIV>Ado suggests “peut-être” (<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">JR</I>
2012: 329):</DIV>
<DIV>(1) Live spiders attached by threads</DIV>
<DIV>(2) penny toys</DIV>
<DIV>(3) bicycles</DIV>
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<DIV>I think Ado’s #3 is unlikely: bikes on the pavement – disgraceful! I
think those types of bikes called spiders predate 1910 by some considerable time
(altho’ I’d never heard of them before).</DIV>
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<DIV>Ado’s #1 seems possible. After all, in the Victorian period you could
buy sparrows from street vendors, with strings attached to their legs, and you
could fly them around. Ugh!</DIV>
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<DIV>I really like Vara’s and Ado’s #2. Not something I would have thought
of, but look here:</DIV>
<DIV><A
title=http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ANTIQUE-WIND-UP-CLOCKWORK-TOY-SCHUCO-STYLE-SPRING-DEVIL-SPIDER-C1920S-30S-/391084080032
href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ANTIQUE-WIND-UP-CLOCKWORK-TOY-SCHUCO-STYLE-SPRING-DEVIL-SPIDER-C1920S-30S-/391084080032">http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ANTIQUE-WIND-UP-CLOCKWORK-TOY-SCHUCO-STYLE-SPRING-DEVIL-SPIDER-C1920S-30S-/391084080032</A></DIV>
<DIV><A
title=http://www.ebay.ca/itm/OLD-GERMAN-WIND-UP-TOY-SPIDER-/251940077598?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3aa8cc801e
href="http://www.ebay.ca/itm/OLD-GERMAN-WIND-UP-TOY-SPIDER-/251940077598?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3aa8cc801e">http://www.ebay.ca/itm/OLD-GERMAN-WIND-UP-TOY-SPIDER-/251940077598?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3aa8cc801e</A></DIV>
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<DIV>On the other hand, would a 1922 reader know what VW was referring to?
Would it be obvious to him/her that she was referring to toys?</DIV>
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answers gratefully received.</SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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