46 OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS. 
hard for the spiders, but sometimes they pay the birds 
back. There is said to be a spider in a certain part of 
the world which is so large and strong that it eats 
CHIMNEY SWIFT. 
birds. It lies in wait and eatches small, weak birds 
as if they were so many flies. This seems very cruel, 
because we love the birds so much. But we might 
learn to leve the spiders just as well, if we should get 
better acquainted with them. 
