Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 300
omebody saw the bird at work.The tarantula, a large poisonous spider thatlives in the same regions as the road-runner, issaid by the inhabitants to be a favorite food.Whether that be true or not, the bird kills everyone he finds asleep, by a very ingenious method.Taking some thorny cactus-leaves in… … CHAPARRAL-COCK, OR ROAD-RUNNER. upon him. Mr. Spider awakes as much astonishedas a small boy can be when he falls out of bed, andbounds round his little circus-ring until he killshimself on the thorns. Then, I suppose, the birdeats him, but of this we are not certain. The paisano catches lizards…
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