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and devour it at their pleasure. A comical sight is to 

 see one sitting in his doorway with the lid propped up. 

 When out on a ramble in summer you may see a large 

 spider hanging in his web on a tree, his body very 

 large, bright golden yellow, being variously marked 

 with black and red, and occasionally some blue. This 

 species is poisonous, and does not make a very exten- 

 sive web, it being a small net work in the center, 

 surrounded by long radiating threads which are fasten- 

 ed to neighboring objects. In and about the trop- 

 i cs are some very large spiders which are highly color- 

 ed and poisonous a bite proving fatal. 



Some spiders spin a little silken bag, in which they 

 deposit their eggs. When the eggs are hatched, if the 

 bag is broken myriads of minute legged creatures come 

 pouring out and over the observer. 



AHTS. 



For industry and economy there could be no better 

 specimen of the insect tribe selected. Who is there 

 that has watched the ant in all its various daily duties 

 but what can verify this statement? It is wonderful 

 the amount of material it excavates and carries in its 

 jaws, and what large and strong houses some species 

 make. Most ants live in the ground, while others 

 live in mounds or nests on the surface. There are sev- 

 eral kinds of these insects, the most common being 

 the little brown ant, which is constantly seen except in 

 winter. 



The large black ant may be seen in great num- 

 bers running up and down the trunks of trees and 

 speaking to each other as they pass. The small red 



