Insects and Their Relatives 



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One day Henry found the most remarkable spider 

 web he had ever seen. It was nine teet wide, seven 

 feet high, and a yard thick; and each one of the hun- 

 dreds of females in the big web had a special web of 



Fig. 62. A black spider found in Jamaica. Two of its legs were unlaw- 

 fully long and had to be amputated. 



her own, while all the little males were huddled 

 down in one corner to themselves. He thought 

 that was woman's suffrage with a vengeance! 



Other creatures with many legs were the daddy- 

 long-legs, earwig, scorpion, and centipede, or forty 

 legs, which ate insects and had a bite almost as se- 

 vere as the scorpion's sting. 



