| Some of these spiders could straddle over
a common saucer with their hairy, muscular legs, and when their feelings
were hurt, or their dignity offended, they were the wickedest-looking desperadoes
the animal world can furnish. If their glass prison-houses were touched
ever so lightly they were up and spoiling for a fight in a minute. Starchy?--proud?
Indeed, they would take up a straw and pick their teeth like a member of
Congress. - Roughing It |
 AI image created by Barbara Schmidt |
Illustration from first edition of ROUGHING IT
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