Show the spiders fatal mistake albany journal A small garden spider bad spun his web io in A corner where A perpendicular cular column and a hori horizontal tl rail met and from the ambush of a crack awaited hie his dipterous prey A handsome yellow wasp passing that way espia the grach graceful ful trap and made for it settling his feet I 1 lightly iab aly ou on two or three of the ea es he started up a great buzzing which shook the web from end to end the watchful spider ran out a little way stretched forth a delicate foot to make ture of the location of the supposed fly and then rushed for it alighting on the wap with a gleeful jump and no doubt a grin of hideous triumph but mr spider reckoned without his host lost like a sash flash of lightning the wasps six nimble legs closed upon him the graceful body beat nearly double and once twice thrice again and again the sharp eling pierced the luckless spider As his struggles grew fainter and finally ceased the wasp wit with h a spring disentangled himself from the silken net and bore away his spidery victim in triumph |