PUZZLING A SPIDER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 10 August 1908, Page 2

PUZZLING A SPIDER.

[ It occurred to a scientist miemitly | to try what effect the sound of a tun- ( ing fork would havci on a spider. I SeJecting a laa-ge, fat apidtir tl^at. had | Icaig beemi feasting on Hie®, thcrnuin of 'j sciexioe sounded the fork and toucliad, a thread of/tha spid ! eir > s wob.' The) owner was at onei end of tho AveL. and the thread selected, was ouu tlici othca.' | fcida Over its woiadeirful tcleiphona ! ■wires thei buzzing sound was conveyed. J to.t-Kei watchful spider; Dut from ita j fo&ition; it could not tell along which, particular liiva tho fcounxi was travel- r ling.^ It ran to. thei centra cf tilt v/eb "!' in hot haste, and kit all round till :t toWKed the threfiwi against tihe othca' ■ .end. of 'whicih zh& fork wus sc<unding. 1 'rhek, taking ainofcheir thread along a*» ' a. precautionary measure, it raa out to the fork and sprang upon it. A.t this point it found out its mistake. It retreated far a shcirt distance, and I stopped' to. feurvey this new buz sing i creature that should have btitoi a »)y.. 1 but was strangely unlike, any insect it had over senjn. At length, apparently convinced that the object at the outer j i edge of the weib ,was more suitable for I aanuseanfent than for an aitiolei of diet, I it got on it and danced with, pleasure. It waa evidemt that the sound of the ■fork was musio to it. , •