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Show TAnAfa'TULA S BIG JUMP. teaee Haul. ta(ra by Hage Agslual a lug. "There are strange sights to be seer in Porto Klco." nidi you g civil en glneer whose swuthy skin was apeak log evidence of tl yter W had epen' In t'm-le Haro'a tseat poaseailon "Tarantulas ara one of them," be con tlnued, "and you should ace a tarantula taran-tula Jump! One of then went througt a marvelous pe f mani a, with tnysel amp a dog for spee ators. The dog'-barking dog'-barking awoke me early one murnlng and f slipped Into my ahoea and rai out. Rpot that's the dogs name-was making frantic plungea at an enormous tarantula, aa big i. my palm, and Ita lege covering aa muci g'uurid aa a soup plate. Its wick d black ryes made me creep. All of a sudden th thing shiank up like a sponge, and Jiimpej for the d g. I give you my word It Jumped fl'tn. n feet If It was an Inch. Twice the dog ran under Ihe spider's Jumpfact. Others were watching by thla t'ni". and they all saw It. I'sually, th.iugh, he just aide-stepped aide-stepped a bit. I broke up little pieces of a branch of a tree and hurled them at the tarantula. My aim wns Jus good enouith lo stir Mm up; at first he kept Jumping away from us, but Spot alwaya herded him back again; thon he Jumped atra'ght for us. At last a lucky ahi.t ken ed him over, and a few strokes with a convenient club finished him. Drink ng water would have been g piissle to us had It not been for tho cocoanul. When neir the coast we gathered three ourselves or sent 'peons' after them, but Inlind we bought them of carriers, who would ell you cocoanut for one cent, would chop off the ends with their machetp, and bora a hole like a ten-rent pleco for you. Thm you drink tha 'cocoa' water, aa they call It, and throw the nut away. "Tha natives are, many of them, a queer lot. Tba Fpinlsh census made tha population 8G per cent white and 16 per cent negro. I rather think tho American figures will Just transpose trans-pose those figures." Cleveland Pis' Dealer. |