The Lords of the Wild

An Adventure story from French Indian War Era. This version is only for PC owners. The pages turn, like in a real book. It always reopens right to the page you stopped on. Be sure to pass on a copy to all your friends. Click HERE to download.

SPIDERS
As Exotic Pets

by Lin Stone
Author of Going Exotic

Spiders can be really be amusing to observe. Back when I was a young cowboy all dressed in white linen – I was lying in a line shack and staring at the ceiling, wishing I had a good book to read.

Suddenly a fly zoomed past my nose and flew into a spider web over my head. For a few seconds the fly struggled to escape. Then here came the spider trailing clouds of shimmering glory in my flickering lamp light as the spider web bounced and jounced in tune with the antagonists.

Spiders have eight legs and they can use their feet just like we use our hands.

My spider spun strands of web and s/he used all eight legs to hogtie that fly. Within 60 seconds that fly was wrapped up like a mummy; there was no way on earth that fly would ever escape. Over and over again that spider bounced out to make his hogtying exhibition for me that night.

Later I learned that not only do spiders keep the populations of flies from flying off the charts, they also keep scorpions from ranging at will. For some strange reason scorpions love to climb up a wall, then explore the ceiling. That wouldn't be so bad, but inevitably scorpions will lose touch with reality and drop off the ceiling. Quite often they don't hit the floor, they hit the bed. Scorpions make strange bedfellows and I prefer to sleep with cuddlier companions. So, that's the reason I prefer to let sleeping spiders lie and protect their webs in my home rather than strike them down.
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