A NATURALIST ON THE RROWL. 
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butterfly, will use a path if it can find one, and so she 
spreads her nets where the moth and the beetle will 
pass, just as we set our traps in the run of the beast we 
wish to catch. 
Yes, the fact is, we all seek our own, and our interests 
are not the same, so we jostle one another as we push 
along, and the weaker goes to the wall. Do not mistake 
my meaning. In this instance the spider is the stronger, 
and it is I who go to the wall. But even the trodden 
worm will turn, and I do turn sometimes on that spider. 
But I confess I am at a loss what to do with him. 
cannot put my foot upon him : he is too fat to be 
* squished,” as they say in Surrey, without a feeling 
akin to mal de mer. What I should like to do would 
be to put him in spirits of wine and make him a 
specimen. And, indeed, I did at one time provide my- 
self with a supply of small glass tubes, and determined 
to devote myself to the study of spiders. Casting about 
for guidance on a subject so unfamiliar, I learned that 
there was practically no book which would be of any 
use to me, but that there was one great living authority 
to whom I might apply. He resided in Sweden and 
usually wrote in Latin. 
