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imagine, for in the morning she was the sole sur- 

 vivor. This so aroused the admiration of one 

 of the young men that he immediately proclaimed 

 that his spider could 



WHIP ANY SPIDER IN THE WOODS ! 



The challenge was accepted by several of the 

 other campers who immediately set to work to 

 scour the stumps and stones and trails in search 

 of gladiators. Learning that I had a big white 

 spider at my camp, one of the lads came over and 

 borrowed it and I afterwards learned to what use 

 he put it. 



The white spider appeared to be an expert in the 

 art of Jiujitsu and it slew all comers until a little 

 unknown spider which the boys named "Teddy" 

 was introduced in the arena. Not only did the 

 white spider bite with fatal results, but it had a 

 mean way of disabling its foes by amputating their 

 legs; it cut all the legs off of the big wood spider 

 and left it unable to move. Whenever the "white 

 death" was put in with its fellows their limbs 

 strewed the field. 



The little strange spider called Teddy after los- 

 ing two legs, killed the "White Death" as the boys 

 called my pet, and it was the death of the "White 

 Death" that the lads had to explain, which gave 

 me the interesting account of the failure of their 

 collection, as such, and its success as a gladiatorial 

 contest; I saw the battle ground and the carnage 

 but did not witness the conflict. You can make pets 



