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served by tlie Spider, it darted swiftly dowii its web, passed a cord 
tliree times round its wings, and twice round its legs, and left it a 
second time to strufcjjie and tire itself. In about two minutes, when 
the Wasp was still, the Spider made its appearance, and cautiously 
advanced to within a little distance, where it made a stand, appa¬ 
rently to see whether its prey was alive or dead; the Wasp no sooner- 
observed its enemy than it began to make extraordinary efforts to get 
free from its thraldom; the Spider then moved towards it, and broke 
both its wings in two, almost close to the body; the Wasp constantly 
striving to dart its sting into the body of its enemy, which it observing, 
took its position behind the body of the Wasp, and every time the 
sting darted out, the Spider wrapped a cord round it; it then began, 
whenever the sting moved, to bite at it: but in this it evidently got 
hurt several times, for I perceived it repeatedly draw back, put its 
feet to its mouth, and let fall a small drop of moisture; in a while I 
saw it completely bite off the end of the sting; it then came round to 
its head, wrapped a cord round its mouth, bit its body in two, and left 
it. I began to conjecture it only killed it for the sake of killing, but 
in this I was mistaken, for in a few minutes it made its appearance, 
wrapped its cord round the Wasp’s body, tied it to its hinder legs, and 
dragged it to its hole. It then fell to work dissecting. Its first appli¬ 
cation was to break off both wings close to tlie trunk, which it brought 
to the outside of the web, and let fall; it then came down, repaired 
its w-eb, examined every part, to see that all was right, which being 
satisfied was the case, it returned to enjoy its meal. In about two 
hours I saw that the body, as well as every other part of the Wasp, 
was completely cleared from the web, 
S. S. Smith. 
Article II .—Remarkable Sagacity of the Mole, 
Gentlemen, 
I ADDRESSED you last month on the subject of Lord Albemarle’s 
discovery of a remedy against the Wire-worm. I again take leave 
to offer you some further suggestions to improve the knowledge of the 
history and habits of animals, &c., for which purpose an immense 
fund could be gathered from the pages of the Sporting Magazine, but 
more, from a source that hitherto never has been sought after, I mean 
the game-keepers. I seldom get into the company of that class of 
people, without learning something interesting regarding birds and 
beasts; and as most of your correspondents are persons employed in 
