| Show MIGRATING tarantulas how the move lu over the country an old military friend of mine told me not long since that in the summer of isra he and a companion were traveling before day one morning ta escape the terrible heat of the later hours along the bank of the gila river on the arizona side writes rev J D gillilan in the christian advocate jogging alona and chatting as they went or listening to a distant tu whit liu of home drowsy sand owl their horbes suddenly snorted and stopped short and endeavored to turn about they brought their guns into position and peered into the dissolving darkness expecting to see some varmint or skulking indian but nothing appeared in view they urged their horses but not a step did or would they budge except in alie wrong way when their eyes lighted apon a ong black hat serpentine looking zone or ribbon stretching as far as the eye could reach in either direction and directly ucros path one of them dismounted and upon found it to bo aming more nui leaa than a mighty multitude of silent soft footed marching tarantulas migrating somewhere they could not tell where their animals could not leap over them and would not go through so there was but one alternative if they did not care to stay there and that was to return about two miles to where tasy biad just broken camp coming again later in the day they boand the host had passed by but biad ivle in wake thousands that had ben killed by a little enemy that follows them a ermall bird that stabs alie ironstar spider to death wherever found |
