A Sociable Spider.
Sojie j»eais ago I was Jiwngjn St. Lrois. All dny long I was buoy, but in the evening I was my own master. Letting down my curtains and poking my firo to i steady blaze one evening, I drew my chair np to a tablo near the wall and began writing. Soon I was eurprisetl to find that my room had another ocoupant, no other that an immense black spider, which advanced sociable toward me upou the table. I wiia quite surprised to find that Ko showed no fear, but sat looking at me with attention. I pulled a straw from the broom and drow it gently over his body and legs, to his great delight, for ten minutes, when he retired. The next evening he reappeared, to my surprise, and we went through the same antics with the broom straw, to his evident pleasure. Tnia waa kept up all that lonely Winter, and tho solitude of my evenmga waa greatly relieved by my big spider friend, who came out regularly every night for a frolic with me and the broom Btraw. — Letter in the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2048, 22 August 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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190A Sociable Spider. Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2048, 22 August 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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