"THE SPIDER AND THE FLY."
One still, hot day wo were walking through some beautiful native bush. When we had travelled some distance along the track we came to a steep cliff where a waterfall usually splashed over in damp weather. As we were admiring the ferns growing there we noticed something shining find golden moving across the face of the rock. It was a large reddish fly pulling a great fat spider up the watercourse. It was the funniest thing to watch the fly crawling backwards up that steep rock and avoiding all the steep ridges and wet clumps of moss. At last it entered a hole under a little fern and we would have liked to have watched longer, but a number of people came down the track and we had to move on. Evidently in this case it was the spider who was invited to walk into the parlour. —Jack Warren, Pentland Avenue, Mount Eden (aged 11).
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19892, 10 March 1928, Page 4 (Supplement)
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