Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 737
in bunches of bananas. Bermidji, Minn.Dear St. Nicholas : A clerk in my fathers storefound a tarantula in a bunch of bananas, and we soonhad it in a bottle of alcohol. It answered the descrip-tion of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which says thebody does not exceed three quarters of an inch in… … and Science department, in which I hope to see thetarantula described. Last spring the physiology class at school had sometrouble over the functions of the white corpuscles ofthe blood, but the article in the St. Nicholas came toour assistance. Your friend, Julian Peterson. Some tarantulas have…
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