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times cautiously, sometimes with a swoop, 
upon his prey. This he pierces with his 
fangs, and then revolving the insect, he 
swathes it in a broad band of silk from the 
spinnerets. This is done in an incredibly 
short time, the jaws and forelegs turning 
the captured creature in the floss until it is 
entirely covered. The drag line is then of 
use to climb up, carrying the food to the 
web-center, as it saves the net from being 
injured to any greater extent. The spider 
merely sucks the juices from its captive 
and throws the dry shell away. After the 
meal there is the work of repairing the 
web, which is almost certain to be torn 
from the struggles of the insect. 
Trapping is the spider's sole means of 
livelihood. He is not apt to move his 
snare when he finds the food scarce, but 
waits on and on, often for a long time 
wi’^hout reward. The rain twists and tan¬ 
gles his web, animals plod through it and 
man wilfully destroys it, still he rebuilds 
it and waits, working indefatigably for 
the future. This is the strange thing 
about the spider that makes him different 
from all the other animals but man. He 
must fabricate a means to catch his food. 
Whether it is instinct or cunning that tells 
him how to weave and where to place his 
web, one must sto]) to wonder, for he 
seems to have almost human judgment. 
He will sometimes weave fenders of 
twisted lines to protect his snare from 
larger creatures than he can capture, turn¬ 
ing them away before they strike the web. 
He will sometimes spin out guy lines to 
brace it against the wind. There is one 
variety of spider that spins a web in tri¬ 
angular shape. It corresponds to three or 
four segments of an orb web, converging 
to a point and there drawn out as a single 
thread. This the spider drags upon and 
holds, allowing the slack to drop beneath 
him. When an insect strikes the web the 
spider releases his hold, and the elasticity 
of the threads causes them to snap back 
quickly and entangle the insect. It is just 
like lying in wait and springing a snare, 
and seems to require more than cunning. 
So one might go on enumerating the 
wonderful things about the spider — not the 
great hairy ones of tropical jungles, but 
your own little garden neighbor. And 
surely your garden should have educated 
you to be beyond fear, loatbing and preju¬ 
dice. A garden will do just that, and just 
as it has brightened your eye and cleared 
your vision, it should have swept away the 
prejudice against the spider as a “horri¬ 
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the birds are part and the spiders are part. 
You'll believe it when it is warm again and 
the morning sun reveals to you the great 
glistening diamond sunburst hanging be¬ 
tween the hollyhock stalks or the pickets 
in the fence. If you wish, the spider may 
become a very interesting companion in¬ 
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