Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1874 — The Spider. [ARTICLE]

The Spider.

A COMPOSITION BY JOHNNY. This is a insek that cetohes flies in a net like a fish-net, but not in the water. The net is called a web, and when it cetches dust insted of flies it is a cobweb. The spider knoes he is ugly, so he stays a good deal to home; but ugly wimmen goes to church and walks in the streets more than pretty; but they are both in the same business, which is trappin*. In Californy they, has spiders that scorns to spin webs, hut goes out and cetches game like other beasts of pray. They are about the size of a girl baby, and a lot pizener. They is tar tmtulcrs. When an injin has bit hisself with a tar antuler he fills his skin with whisky and steals a blanket to wrap bisself in, and hunts a place ware his body will be most in the way. Then he lies down, and if the pizen don’t work all to oree he sings the death song of the brave, and that knocks him. We ngps told this to our house by a traveler, who said he guessed he knew a tarnel site about injius and tar antulerß though he hadn’t never been to college. But Uncle Ned he says it is best to get a good education first, and then thro’ in injins and tar antelers accordin’ to taste. —National Republican .