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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I remember street sellers in London
with mechanical spiders. They had a cable with a hand grip, and
when you squeezed the grip the legs moved and propelled them
along.<br>
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Den 12/05/2015 13:16, skrev Stuart N. Clarke:<br>
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<div>Near the beginning of ch. V:</div>
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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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*very* mysterious. </span></div>
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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
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<div>Ado suggests “peut-ętre” (<i
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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>
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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 moz-do-not-send="true"
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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