THE FUN OF SEEING THINGS 



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A Spider Kills a Snake 



BY HARRY BEELER, PHILADELPHIA, PENN- 

 SYLVANIA. 



A snake in the bushes, seeing a nice, 

 fat, juicy meal in the form of a spider, 

 made a spring- toward her and landed 

 in the spiders web. This held him 

 entangled. As quick as a flash of 

 lightning the spider attacked the 

 snake, and stung him with her poison 

 fangs. Before he could escape from 

 the web, the snake, in a few seconds, 

 died. The spider scored a great vic- 

 tory. 



The grasshopper that you see in the 

 web is only a shell, the spider having 

 absorbed the contents. 



The snake was about six inches 

 long; spider two inches, including the 

 legs. The web was two feet in cir- 

 cumference and very strong. The 

 color of the spider was black and yel- 

 low. The snake was brown. 



The garden spider often vibrates her 

 web manv times when it is touched. 



A SNAKE KILLED IN SPIDER'S WEB. 



The Tubular Growth on Sponges. 



Stamford, Connecticut. 



Dame nature appeals to us from odd 



nooks and corners sometimes. Even 



CURIOUS TUBES ON A SPONGE. 



