Spiders.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 28, 10 July 1902, Page 4

Spiders.

Spiders are an unsociable, misanthropical race at the best of time* auu usually regard each other with tae moet uncompromS aside these prudent considerations, it is a grand-albeit a'saWeeight; to witness the encounter when the combatants TrlKu matched for size and strength The cautious advance with a delicate testing of threads on both Hides ; the wily feint lollot d by a precipitate retreat, and wild dangling of the hero suspend d m mid-air ; and then the headlong rush a,d death-grapple hS tohand, foot-to-foot, which is rendered very impressive when six W 8 are brought into actne r. quisition at once on either side.