Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1905 — The Triumphant Spider. [ARTICLE]

The Triumphant Spider.

A little garter snake about five Inches long went to sleep In a wheelwright shop, and a big black spider ■pun a web around the reptile. When the little snake awoke it was literally In the toils, and began to struggle. It finally managed to free its body, but not its head. Meanwhile the spider was industriously spinning fresh threads, stopping occasionally to give the snake a bite. Then the real fight commenced and lasted for an hfrnfc The snake could not get away, but it tried its best to bite the spider, without avail. Weakened by its futile efforts and the successive stings of the insect, it gradually ceased to struggle and finally died. Then the spider, presumably triumphant, disappeared under the wall.