206 SPIDERS. 



The irascibility of Spiders. 



When two Spiders of the same size meet 

 in combat, neither of them will yield : they 

 hold each other by their fangs so fast, that 

 one of the two must die before they are sepa- 

 rated. Mr. Leuvenhock says, he saw one 

 Spider, that was however only wounded in 

 the leg by his antagonist. A drop of blood 

 as large as a grain of sand issued from the 

 sore, and not being able to use this wounded 

 leg in running away from his enemy, he 

 held it up, and presently afterwards the 

 whole limb dropped jfrom his body.— When 

 Spiders are wounded in the breast or upper 

 parts of the body, they always die. 



BiNGLEY. 



Curious artifice of the Spider. 



An old Spider, who has no longer any 

 thing to subsist on, seeks out a young one, 

 and acquaints it with her necessities, and in- 

 tentions ; at which the other, either out of 

 respect to old age, or apprehensive of the 



