Show daddy ir everi Eve iii 1 fairy biry tate tale MARY GRAHAM BOWER BITING CREATURES the tarantula was spinning a beautiful ca 1 web for he was aa a large and different kind of spider at least lie was waa very different from other sorts aorta of spiders we know though he ha was BS not different from other kotlier bem members of his own f faintly aint I 1 Y his bite Is dangerous but no one need worry about it itin in this country foche for he never comes around our parts but lives in other A parts of the world 1 I think we are rather line fine said bird killing the second tarantula as he watched the first one spinning our bite Is considered very dangerous but we ne do not know many people they dont come com a where we are that they know en enough ough not to do said the first tarantula imagine living the tha way our tame mine cousin spiders do slid said neighbor tarantula antula 1 I said the first one 1 I absolutely we would noi not be b happy away from home we would become quite homesick and we ne are aie so much oner finer than are said neighbor tarantula ali ah yes es we are much finer than our cousins we are arc and I 1 know why you say po so it Is because they can only spin webs we can do that to in addition to spinning webs we have fine nests to live in and we make them ourselves our nests are as alne as the nests or of birds when you speak of birds said a neighbor tarantula it makes my mouth water yon You got enuch of a mouth to water said the first tarantula however we can eat I 1 yes and we c can an kill we can spin webs and build nests we are alne flue fine indeed indeed of course neighbor tarantula doubtfully 1 I suppose there are some creatures who think it so fins fine to be proud of our bird kill ing adventures there are some creatures said the first tarantula who are jealous maybe so said the neighbor 1 I wonder er if you have heard the old story about us maybe so maybe not but tell it to me so I 1 will know it anyway my grandfather told it to me when I 1 was a little spider it was when my claws s and legs legi were beginning to grow big and amount to something this was his story years and years ago he be said there was an old saying that the bite of the tarantula was so dangerous that it t could on only ly be cured by dancing and singing so they named barned a dance after us which they called the tarantula it Is an old fashioned dance and they named a piece of music after us too the kind of in music u s I 1 e the tarantula that could be used for this old dance all ali tame fame to have a dance and a kind of music named after our family and the other agreed that that was so 80 |