THE SPIDERS. 



" Help me curse 

 That bottled spider." 



WHY should the poor crea- 

 " ture be cursed ? If " bottled " 

 means bloated, as Shakesperian 

 commentators say, then wherewith is 

 it bloated ? With the mosquito that bit 

 you ; with the fly that sat on the point of 

 your nose, and returned to the point of your 

 nose, until five words mis-spelled and symptoms 

 of temporary insanity obliged you to drop your pen ; 

 with the bluebottle, which baptized its foul person in the 

 milk, and crawled out again smeared with cream ; with the 

 cockroach, which gnawed the kid gloves, or that other one 



