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Show SPIDER KILLED A FISH H Event Shows Amazing Strength ef B Small insect. B "The amazing strength of spiders la Bfl onown in a number of well nuthentt- B catcd Instances," said a biologist of ' BB the University of Pennsylvania. "Thus BS we havo an Instance of a half-Inch BE spider catching a two-Inch fish. SB "The spider weighed 14 gratns. It B was of tho ground, or wolf, family. A BK British scientist came upon It strug- B gllng with the fish on the edgo of a 81 llttlo pool. Its claws wcro burled In the fish's tall it had the tall out of BJ the wator but the head still remained underneath. Like a fiend tho spider BE struggled to pull the fish up on the BR bank, and the fish struggled desper- 'jBk' atoly to draw the spider into tho pool. JH "For ten minutes the scientist jH watched this silent and deadly fight. jfl Then he hurried away, scientist like. He for a bottle to catch the fighters In. 2H He was gone about half an hour, and 18 on his return the end had come. The jflf fish was dead and the spider was slow- afl ly dragging It away." Bj |