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on the part of his spouse, and consequently only undertakes to 

 enter upon his amours with a due amount of caution. 



The bite of some spiders is dangerous and extremely poison- 



Fig. 2. The Whip-tailed Scorpion. (Thelyphonus giganteus.) 



Natural size, from life, by the author. 



ous; when inflicted in the ease of small animals it often causes 

 almost immediate death. This is a bite, however, and not a 

 sting, as in the case of their near cousins, the scorpions. The 

 latter are connected with the spiders by a very remarkable in- 



