Capitolo 96
you structure, when I complete, a sight is so beautiful and marvelous, with
his/her geometric regularity and his/her drops provided of wheats that if it were
produced by a rare creature by Madagascar or the Head, in the
bug-house in the Zoo, the whole world, I am convinced, it would dress again wicker to
you look at him as one nine-day wonders. But from when it is only the trap of the
the English common spider garden, because, all of us pass him/it from without deigning
also to throw a look to him.
At night my friends eight-that it has legs they always slept in their his/her own houses or
nests under refuge of the pink-leaves. But during their day
alternated among the nest and the centre of the web that I complete
it seemed to serve them as a convenient station where they waited for
their prey, descending erect head with legs wide expansion on the rays,
on the look-out for accidents. If to the centre or in the nest,
they held however continually, their feet on the clock for some
I disturb on the webs; and the instant that some unhappy small fly has found
entangled in their sweaters, the never-careful spider was out as a
shine of lightning, and down immediately in the full strength on that imprudent
intruder. I was convinced after a lot of observations that it is from touch
alone the spider recognizes the presence of prey in its web and that
he/she doesn't deduce really some value of indications that speaks than from his numerous
few looks, at least as you greet the arrival of loot. If a very great
bug has in the web, then a relatively the great volume of
trouble is propagated along the telegraphic thread from which it races the
you trap to the house, or from the circumference to the centre; if a small
one, then a disdains trouble; and the spider dresses again wicker accordingly out,
or with an air of the caution or fierce triumph.
Admitted that the available loot was a small fly, then Lucy or Eliza are able
immediately jumps on him with that strange access of evidently personal
animosity with it seems in of the mysterious way a characteristic of everybody