The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-08-01

! deed, Katie began to fear that some
| thing had happened to her, when she
flew in heavily laden with a spider half
rs large as herself This she carefully
stuffed into the very back of the CELL
and, after washing her hands, was OF
! once more.
" Allie, how does she catch the
spiders without them singing herr"
| asked Katie.
Very easily. my dear. When the
cell is ready for the spiders she flies
into the woods or down on the marsh,
and as soon as she sees one lying in or
near its web, ready to Jump upon the
| first luckless fly that attempts to rest
on its net she says to herself: 'Ah,
You will do and pounces down upon
the spider before he can say Good
gracious what's the NATTER? catching
him by the back of the head or neck,
buzzing very loud. As she does so she
flies away with her victim. and by the
time she reaches her house the spider
! is stiff and dead. Sometimes | have
seen the spider show fight but gener-
ally the drt-dobber is too quick to give
him q chance.
How many spiders does she put in
one cell, Cousin Allie"
q" ! have found from six ~ ten. II
depends, l think, upon the size of the
spiders.
When it's fun of spiders what does
the dirt-dobber do?"
. She then deposits tiny egg, that
| looks almost Ike wee, wee worm.
! have read that the egg is laid in the
body of the dead spider, but this spring
have examined some thirty or forty
nests almost as soor as they were
closed up, and in I'll cases | have found
the egg on, not in, the ,pider.'
"What does she do when the egg is
laid, Allie?'
"As soon as the egg is laid she goes
to work and seals the cell up air-tight
with Dirt, and then begins n new one. -
But what becomes of the cog and
the spiders, shut up in that dark hole?"
asked Katie.
"Out OF the egg comes a tiny worm,
scarcely so large as 4 rose thorn, and
| it begins and eats the spiders up. "
"Oh, dear. it will starve when the
last SPIDERS gone" exclaimed Katie
No, it will not, for as soon as it has
eaten all of the spiders it wcavcs out OF
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