Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . but I could not abidethose spiders. I may add that the last speakerafterward blessed them. Oh! these prettylittle red spiders, Avhat have they not to accountfor! Perhaps more good than evil. Theyspin their webs, as you perceive (Figure 18), upagainst the rocks—a kind of tunnel in whichthey would hide. But no sooner was the grasstouched than out they rushed in dozens. Therewere many stories afloat about persons havingbeen stung by them; but this is all arc very harmless. You can see thattheir mandibles are not very formi
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . but I could not abidethose spiders. I may add that the last speakerafterward blessed them. Oh! these prettylittle red spiders, Avhat have they not to accountfor! Perhaps more good than evil. Theyspin their webs, as you perceive (Figure 18), upagainst the rocks—a kind of tunnel in whichthey would hide. But no sooner was the grasstouched than out they rushed in dozens. Therewere many stories afloat about persons havingbeen stung by them; but this is all arc very harmless. You can see thattheir mandibles are not very formidable ortoothed. The long hairs with which they aretrimmed are used as brushes, which sheperforms her toilet. The hair on her body isshort, thick, and bristly. As she runs along inthe sun she has a very fiery and dangerous ap-pearance ; but is, in reality, a very pretty littlecreature. It is said she is the same as the Dryas-deria erythrina, a small red spider found nearParis, in the Bois de Boulogne, on the Boule-vards, and the gardens around. Whether she.
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