| Show A SPIDERS PERSEVERANCE IU Rebuilds His Web Many Times In Spite or Repeated Failures The writer spent a full hour a few days ago watch jug a spider managing his snares and trap victims He was so deliberate calculating cold blooded and merciless that one could scarcely keep fromshiver iH at the liitlpoijts rrpjitiiTps lock nf 1 j < 1 trt mercy And yet his persistence anti tin i flagging energy fascinated one Xo matter j I how often his net broke he set to work inr dutrio sly to repair it again 2Jb matter how l6ng it took him to secure captive he patiently wound and wound his fragile I thread Until the victim was bouudfastand hard His meshes were stretched in a corner and almost at the same moment a flYand a miller became entangled in them Instantly In-stantly the bandit insect lowered himself I r toward the miller When the milieu savj her enemy approaching she revolved furij I ously beating the air wildly vith lier light wings The spider was whirled in his web with lightning like rapidity but i he clung there stubbornly until the miller stopped her struggles for rest Then cautiously 1 cau-tiously the black villain approached > I nearer Again the shadowy wings whirled i and again the spider flew in small circles but he did not retire And so inch by inch the passionless little savage closed with I the terrified miller At last he made a spring Around went the two in a brown I whirl and the spider shot up his life line i He had fastened another line to the miller i I The spider went back to the fly and then I made its bones more se ure Again ho I fastened threads to the miller each time working his way slowly to her andthen I pouncing upon her to fasten her in another thread j Once the miller almost freed herself and 1 1 fell awayfrom the web hanging only by a single fine thread Stubbornly the spider went to work to do all his task over again At last when it was seen that the miller was hopelessly caught tho writer released her It was found that all Tier legs were j bound closely together so careful had been 1 the spiders work I In tearing her away the writer had destroyed de-stroyed the web and while the millers feet i were being freed the indomitable spider I built him another trap working sullenly and persistently This done he retired to his corner only to come forth like a midnight mid-night highwayman when his next victim was trapped i Nothing could discourage the spider i Twice a great mosquito was fastened in the meshes and each time while the spider I was trying to fasten him so that he could I not escape the mosquito broke away I Repairs begin at once and soon the spider went back to his corner to wait for another prisoner I The writer swept awaythe > web entirely and went away Half anhour later when he returned the untiring spider was rebuilding re-building his snare His > will and determination deter-mination this time conquered < < for who does not admire dogged resolution that will ot downHartford Times |
