Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     On Friday last, [1st inst.] a spider was discovered by the workmen in the Rock Creek Mill, apparently in contact with a small black snake, about 9 inches long. When first discovered, the snake was snapping at the spider, and at each snap or jump of the snake, the spider lapt his web round the snake’s head, and still kept looping him up to his fastening. This combat continued all day on Friday, and all Saturday, until the evening, when the spider completely conquered, and had killed the snake. On Sunday, [yesterday] he had him well lashed about the head, middle and tail, and had him hoisted eighteen inches up in his web, where he is now hanging, and the spider feeding on him. What is remarkable, is, that this spider is not bigger than a common fly. They can both be seen in the web at the paper-mill, and all the above facts attested by Wm. Leish, foreman, Edward Levis, George Miller and Samuel Norwood, workmen in the mill, and by all the hands working there.