. St. Nicholas [serial] . nd in back of a fly, and then spring upon him; andhe very seldom misses his mark. Then there is thecommon brown spider who builds his web horizontallyand has a funnel-shape lair where he lies in wait forsome hapless fly to get entangled. Last of all, the gauzespider, who is all the colors of the rainbow. He buildshis web in the grass and waits silently for prey. He isthe most courageous of all, and will attack wasps and bees. I was watching one, one day, when I saw two largewasps fly into his web. Hekept well away from thewasps business ends untilhe had wound nearly a
. St. Nicholas [serial] . nd in back of a fly, and then spring upon him; andhe very seldom misses his mark. Then there is thecommon brown spider who builds his web horizontallyand has a funnel-shape lair where he lies in wait forsome hapless fly to get entangled. Last of all, the gauzespider, who is all the colors of the rainbow. He buildshis web in the grass and waits silently for prey. He isthe most courageous of all, and will attack wasps and bees. I was watching one, one day, when I saw two largewasps fly into his web. Hekept well away from thewasps business ends untilhe had wound nearly all hisweb around them. Thenhe rolled them to the cen-ter of his web and sat onthem. When a spider hashard luck by having hisweb torn down a numberof times, he goes prospect-ing to find a suitable webto steal. The thief is al-most always killed, thoughI dont know why, unlessthe spider that owns theweb knows it better thanthe other—probablv so. ,< _ • , T TERRAPIN. BY CATHERINE One night 1 was watch- prize, wild-anim.
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