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DAN BEARD'S ANIMAL BOOK: 



THE "WHITE DEATH" CATCHING A BUMBLEBEE. 

 SKETCHED FROM LIFE 



of spiders as I have often done, but they will not 

 tolerate companions of their own kind in their con- 

 finement. 



It is not at all difficult to deceive human beings, 

 with either fake animals, or fake animal stories, 

 of course there are some people who will not be- 

 lieve anything that they have not seen with their 

 own eyes, and these are the ones whom you can 

 most easily deceive, even with home manufactured 

 artificial animals. When I was a lad in Painsville, 

 Ohio, I made 



