. The world of the great forest; how animals, birds, reptiles, insects talk, think, work, and live . e could fly all over without being molested. At last she entered the house where the housespider was who had devoured the cockroach. Sheflew around. She caught sight of a spider. Its dullgray color could not escape her. The acute hearing of the spider soon told him thata wasp, his most dreaded enemy, was in the house,and he was seized with great fear, for he knew his lifewas in danger. He lay as flat as he could on the walland did not move, hoping not to be discovered. But his efforts were of n
. The world of the great forest; how animals, birds, reptiles, insects talk, think, work, and live . e could fly all over without being molested. At last she entered the house where the housespider was who had devoured the cockroach. Sheflew around. She caught sight of a spider. Its dullgray color could not escape her. The acute hearing of the spider soon told him thata wasp, his most dreaded enemy, was in the house,and he was seized with great fear, for he knew his lifewas in danger. He lay as flat as he could on the walland did not move, hoping not to be discovered. But his efforts were of no avail. In a flash the 189 THE WORLD OF THE GREAT FOREST wasp was right over the spider, almost touching hisbody, — all her efforts and intelligence concentrated inthe capture and destruction of her victim. She dartedher legs at their full length between the legs of thespider, striking them incessantly to prevent him frommoving, and so rapidly that they could hardly be seen,while at the same time she gave constant bites in theback of his neck. Faster and faster moved her legs. •#*^^K3S!^^.,. When the wasp thought she had crippled the spiderenough, she drew backward, her head moving down,and her nippers cut his right leg near its junction withhis body. She moved forward again, and bit the neckonce more, and after this cut his left front leg. Thesix legs were cut off, one after the other, in this the whole fight the spider seemed benumbed,and after the last leg had dropped the wasp fiew awaywith the body to devour it at her ease. 190 CHAPTER XXXI THE TWO , OR PALE-FACED APES IN the midst of the dark foliage of a group of treesstood two pale yellow-faced nkengos (men ofthe woods). Strange, indeed, looked their yellow,wrinkled, parchment-like faces, in the midst of thegreen leaves that surrounded them. They werealmost like the faces of white human beings after along illness, but darker. They had met toward evening near their twobowers, as was their habit, wh
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