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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860
Year: 1860 (1860s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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nceiving that there was a solid bar-rier of glass between her and them. At lastshe concluded to lift it with her mandibles.Two long hours she tugged at it, retreatingbackward up her ladder; but the piece of beef,when just clearing the bottom, would slide downand bring her along with it. After several un-successful attempts, she went up to her cham-ber, as we, the spectators, presumed, to rest.She made her toilet, came down again, dined—it being now near noon—and then another des-perate eflfort was made to hang up the beef.She lifted it in her jaws, retreating upwardmore than an inch from the bottom of the glass,and actually retained it in this position an hourand twenty minutes! Consider the strength ofthese little jaws to hold up such a weight forsuch a length of time. At last, in despair, un-able to draw it higher, she relinquished it, andit fell heavily to the bottom. Slowly and weari-ly she ascended away to the farthest corner ofher castle, and I saw no more of her for two 474
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FIGTJKE IG —EPEXRA LETJCOSTIGMA. (lays. Slie might have come forth during thenight, but the flies and rose-bugs remainedalive; so she did not feed during that time.The piece of beef measured an inch in length,not quite a quarter in thickness, and little morethan half an inch in breadth. We all knowhow heavy meat is when very rare or raw; andher feat was as though a man should lift fivehundred weight by his teeth. She was lionizedfor some days, of course, among those who didnot consider her beneath their notice. She isnow very busy repairing the injuries done to herabode this morning by a large fly. He is nice-ly trussed up to regale her when her labors areover. I will give you one more native; and it mustbe my last. Are any of the younger genera-tion acquainted with the match-breaking spider ?Dryasderia Rhodii* is her classical name. In myday she performed a most important part in thedrama of life. Who does not know Paradiseand other lovers retreats around Newport ? Inthese places t

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