| Show an ali Infer interesting esting family I 1 spiders what can lily any ove find cud interesting in those ugly sly little creatures i is a question 1 often asked before I 1 made llie elie no acquaintance of any fail family lily the interest which I 1 felt fell in its ils men members led me to exam ine more closely the life ind habits babit of spiders and I 1 iud that observation not nol only deep cushny my iti interest teres t but also increases my illy admiration for this wonderful animals animal as first ann awakened kencil ly by the alic mother of my illy family I 1 first saw her moving moving dorly over a i atone something ap C I 1 knew not what give gave glicr bucl sucha 1 it peculiar appearance that oer coniing my aversion to bl spiders Aders I 1 secured livi lier in ill a box in order that I 1 might inight examine glicr ter to better advantage ta tage c the back of glicr abdomen was I 1 cry rough anil and its surface seemed to be in contant constant motion the showed that thai the abdomen was covered with young 0 sp spiders spid idere cre at first they were not hot very er y active ind and set d booi a ill left their mother but after a couple of hours abe ibay y to escape whenever the coter corer was re rc boded front from tile box bos in chich they were re con confined ined on otte I 1 to pl pick up tip one of them I 1 found it hall had attached itself by a minute thread to its parent different trials bliok ell cd that each caell little spider took tile the same sallie against I 1 any uv possible accident although Althou tile the family was wai well supplied flies and other ill injects cast they seemed to prefer each other 0 and their number rapidly V I 1 until 1 ild itil one day the u whole hole family met I 1 with ith 1 a I fatal accident this I 1 biye ulli always rays as it prevented file learning intile inthe name of this strange family but from what I 1 know of the cara taran I 1 I 1 think it may have been a relative tive owl old |
