THE SPIDERS. .izJ 



many other insects, when their life is in peril, and manifest 

 therein a real heroic indifference. " I have," says Smellie (in 

 Bingley, loc. cit. iv., p. 232), " run needles through spiders 

 under these circumstances, and torn them in pieces, without 

 their betraying the slightest symptom of pain." 



