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wrapped round her! and the angrier she got, the 

 more aggravating it became ! 



At last she was quite exhausted, and lay still. 



Now when she had cooled down a little, she. 

 began to see that she had not gone the right way to 

 work. 



" How foolish of me ! " said she to herself. " Just 

 what a great drone might have done ! If I had 

 taken it quietly at first, I might perhaps have got 

 out ; but what will happen now, I can't think. 

 What a fool I have made of myself, to be sure! " 



" Ho ! Ho ! " cried a deep sarcastic voice close 

 by. 



Buz looked round, startled, and saw a great big 

 spider near her on the web. 



He was horrible to look at, with his cruel, blood- 

 thirsty expression, but seemed perfectly composed, 

 and fixed his wicked, hungry eyes steadily on Buz. 

 For a moment the latter was quite paralyzed with 

 fear, but, recovering a little, made some frantic 

 efforts to free herself. These, however, were unsuc- 

 cessful, and she again lay still, exhausted by her 

 struggles. 



" Ho ! Ho ! " cried the spider again. 



By this time Buz had recovered from her first 

 shock of horror, and her blood was up. Besides, she 



