. American spiders and their spinning work. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits. Spiders. 244 AMERICAN SPIDBRS-AND THEIK SPINNINGWORK. is two feet ten inches. The spider's web extended perliaps three-fourths the length of the desk next to the wall, and covered the bottom of the desk to the width of .about fifteen or sixteen inches. It was about three feet long by sixteen inches wide. " You will observe that the narrative in the news slip ends with Tuesday morning, August 23d. My paper, which is a weekly, went t
. American spiders and their spinning work. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits. Spiders. 244 AMERICAN SPIDBRS-AND THEIK SPINNINGWORK. is two feet ten inches. The spider's web extended perliaps three-fourths the length of the desk next to the wall, and covered the bottom of the desk to the width of .about fifteen or sixteen inches. It was about three feet long by sixteen inches wide. " You will observe that the narrative in the news slip ends with Tuesday morning, August 23d. My paper, which is a weekly, went to press late Tuesday afternoon. The hoisting process continued all day Tuesday, and employes about the stable say that by dark Tuesday night the mouse was four or from the floor. Tuesday entered the room in the broke the web, and the ing, according to my re brushed away. I greatly not allowed to complete his captured and preserved, when I found how the The Hon. J. Proctor tative in Congress from ernor of the State, was en me by Mr. The Hon. me from Wash Proctor newspaper ac letter the follow was first called or eleven o'clock spider having made its the tail of the mouse, of weight, gradually hoisted barely touch the floor was still busily ' hoisting was no less vigorously en That afternoon, perhaps pany with Mr. Hopper, ard,' I again visited the ture, and found that the. Knott's Testi- mony. four and a half inches night a meddlesome boy dark and accidentally mouse fell. Next morn- collection, the web was regret that the spider was work, and that he was not I was greatly mortified affair had ; Knott, then a represen- Kentucky, and later gov- one of the references giv- Hoi)per. He kindly wrote ington, confirming the count. I quote from his ing: " When my attention to the matter—about ten in the forenoon—the thread fast to the end of I^erhaps fifty times its own its prey so that it could with its fore paws, and away,' while the mouse deavoring to break loo
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