76 LIVING CREATURES. 



1 7. MISS SPIDER S WEDDING BREAKFAST. 



A FAT little spider married would be, 

 So he made him a rope and climbed a tree 

 To where Miss Spider was making a pie 

 Of a bumble bee and a small house fly. 



And she wed him there in the morning light, 

 When the dew on the grass was round and bright, 

 Then spread out her table so lacy and fine, 

 And off from her husband began to dine. 



She ate him all, from his head to his heel, 

 And never a pang of remorse did feel, 

 But, as curled up close in her cosy bed, 

 "That spider was tough," to herself she said. 



1 8. AMONG THE INSECTS. 



ON the copy from which this page is printed a fly 

 lighted. Did he think I was writing about him? And 

 had he come to see that I did not slander him? He 

 stands still, and does not mind a motion of the hand, 

 as flies usually do. He has found something to eat 

 that explains it all. Thank you, Musca, for I believe 

 that is the name they have given you. I want to 

 look you over a little. 



A spot of mucilage on the paper seems to attract 

 him. Keep still ! There is a magnifying glass at hand 



