Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 99
THE SPIDER FROM A TEXAS GARDEN. Mexicans are very much afraid of it. I wish youwould please tell me its right name and some moreabout it. I have been taking the St. Nicholas for three years,and enjoy it very much. Yours truly, Dorothy Anderson. The animal represented is one of the desert orwind… … the remarkable, biting jaws of a wind spider. pers in their large jaws. They are not poisonous,although they can bite severely. A dozen or morekinds of these spiders occur in the western partof the United States, and there is also one speciesfound in Florida.—Nathan Banks. IS THERE A SEA-SERPENT ?…
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