Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 62
anda. Having to use the apartment sometime after, she found, to her astonishment, thatthe walls were completely covered by a beautiful,uniform web, attached at the corners by coarsethreads, so that it hung like a tapestry of silverysheen, presenting an unbroken surface of abouttwo hundred and… … THE PERIPATUS CAPTURING AN INSECT IN ITS WEB. (SEE NEXT PAGE.) and in Bermuda, other kinds of webs, the threadsof which were so stout that they have been used assewing-silk. For many years the account given byMadame Merian of the spider that hunted birds and 5^8 ANIMAL TRAPS AND TRAPPERS. [May,…
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