198 LIFE IN THE INSECT WORLD, 



EVENING EIGHTEENTH. 



SPIDERS. 



Aunt M. Spiders fall so constantly under 

 our observation, that they seem to invite us to 

 an examination of themselves and their curious 

 workmanship . 



We can scarcely walk in the fields, or go into 

 our little gardens in the summer time, without 

 seeing the different kinds of spiders weaving 

 their webs or watching for their prey. But, 

 like many other things which we are in the 

 habit of seeing daily, they cease to appear won- 

 derful to us, merely because they are common ; 

 and we are too apt either to pass them careless- 

 ly by, or to bestow upon them a most unfavor- 

 able notice, knocking down the web which has 



