Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1876 — THE GARDEN SPIDER. [ARTICLE]

THE GARDEN SPIDER.

' f my yoiing friends who d Mioheei ifoibdgardAn oh a fine autumn jWEFjgiKS tMKuSi.iSßfei.-ii.diS' ii ® hbmete’ OMfiin,' <e loWfe spid*. ’ « Miy/foi whllaVthb' dpftfei 1 throws irregularly to. gether.fhe garden spider arranges hers in Ji ifetr iofofcircltei at Carefttlly 'rfieasured dlstanpes;, ju« as her, wbm pIS”Y a 8 *> UDy ‘ CQIU:tSSsSSSe ,cl'f.woujd brt glad if oar littl*. friend cc uld. impart foyou her power of making fib em so perfectiy’j'.for she has earned for refill Wl -J*ame df ! the Geometrical </ I^ l, yJi l, ivA!t6fi her worlf you vHH M irfgattffo trtginahkr pristeihg htr ,th JjwiStotttettttai toi Another ■ -branch,' ;,wAUei.X)i’er*i again and igaln< eaeli tithe ather; till the framework ot her web is efio netiined bioksitfte threads sWari to forffi* 11 Iwlabeldnkldae of odtMlte rom-Bdr spinheretfr, Which ime ahf reaohes a Bbwer “branch, \vhere she if t This dqne, aim Muns, brick tne OTrtßide cord isreacUda again. VraiK* jndaJqpg WCe dis> ( rance, she drops some more gum and con-, tinues her cburs& spirinikuc heF threads 73 with het liiad Tegs, id preveift' Its getting epi anglql with foe cords 0f the framework. When she gets opposite foe place <wttend she to spin, she gives the ,^^gU ¥ g^e#«.Wj‘*k<whi C h. little creature sends on to the outer lines of the web the spdkto' of her deliditfe wheel. In less time than it taken SWi to read about it, she has made all these spokes,-carefully pulling each to sefe if it is firm; and now begins the work qf, making those beautiful circles which you often see. Htfl e drop of gum fastens the circle to each of the lines, and the-spider! also takes Cam to leave some among tne threads of-foP web, to catch* the feet or the ffies* arid other insects who enter her trap, r When* * all is flnibbed to her, satisfaction, tire busy worker bitris out the piece in the cfentfer of thcpHnes have met; start seating hensetf there, she rests from heriwoi'k and watcher for ‘Tier prey! If tiny friend, fishes- to vWt; she must IM Which* so hrer wari et i aakinlg, ‘“May L Hife Wiow’W ■fdOdisp(>Bedito;be disturbed, L am sorry spiders, with afl their good qualities, are. g‘" ; ' and independent faMour W’iS’&ft’S nr own as tc be* a&n it oa m*C«* J