THE FUN < )F SEEING THINGS 



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A SPTDER'S WEB OVER FOUR FEET IN LENGTH. 



A Huge Spider "Web. 

 As I have watched the building of a 

 spider's web two thing's have greatly 

 impressed me — first, the quickness 

 with which a spider will construct a 

 small web, and secondly, the enormous 

 extent to which some webs may be de- 

 veloped or constructed by their labori- 

 ous builder. By actual observation 1 

 have ascertained that a complete small 

 web may be built in fifteen minutes, 

 while on the other hand there are webs 

 so extended, as is shown in the illus- 

 tration, that they must be the result of 

 weeks of steady attention and growth. 

 The web here shown measures a little 

 more than four feet in length. 



Bat with Nursing Young. 

 A remarkably interesting natural hi 

 tory specimen was recently broi 

 to ArcAdiA by Mr. J. Willis 1 

 65 Fairfield Avenue, Stamford, ' 

 necticut. He had found a I 

 whose breast two very youn 

 were clinging. I took several pi 

 graphs of the unusual group, and 

 thought what an interesting thi 

 will be to show to our 

 chloroform the three and have them 

 prepared by a taxidermist ai 

 ranged on the branch of a tree 

 that purpose I obtained a glass jar, 

 some cotton and a bottle 01" chL 

 form, but then my conscience woke 



up, and began to stab me in so many 

 places ;it once, that I changed my in- 

 tention. 1 took the mother with her 

 little ones still attached and placed 

 them on the veranda as high up as 

 possible and out of the way of cats and 

 other possible prowlers. There they 



A BAT WITH TWO NURSING YOUNG. 



