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the basket, the little head once more appeared at 

 the proper aperture. 



The caterpillar was allowed to crawl away to 

 its well-earned freedom, still burdened with its 

 conical snail-like house tottering on its back. 



When I visited the Rev. Dr. McCook of Phila- 

 delphia and was shown to his library I found it 



INHABITED BY SPIDERS 



of all sorts, and shapes and forms, and their webs 

 stretched over the books, making many passages 

 from one end of the library table to the other and 

 suspension bridges across the chasms formed be- 

 tween the piles of books. 



Besides these loose spiders there were numerous 

 other ones confined in glass-covered boxes. I sup- 

 pose these spiders were tame, for they showed no 

 alarm at my presence and they were probably the 

 pets of the Doctor who has written so much in- 

 teresting matter about spiders, ants, and other in- 

 sects. 



I have never tried to tame an oyster or a 

 clam, but as far as my experience goes I believe 

 that anything with intelligence enough to live on 

 this earth also possesses intelligence enough to 

 learn to know its friends and that is all the intelli- 

 gence required to make it tamable. 



FEROCIOUS SPIDERS. 



The mention of Dr. McCook's spiders recalls 

 to mind some interesting experiments performed 



