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pressed, the females escape by a succession of short runs, but the males
can manage to jump from leaf to leaf with much agility.

Several of the hunting spiders are equal to flying, or at least manage
to be wafted along by the breeze, when they want to take a trip. The
silk these throw out is occasionally called 'gossamer;' it is slight,
and not unlike the true gossamer, made by web-spinners of various sorts,
which we usually notice in autumn, covering bushes and grassy spaces.
The family to which the airy spiders belong is notable, because it
contains those species which have a likeness to crabs in form, having
short broad bodies, feeble front legs, and long, powerful hind legs.
They run easily forwards, backwards, or sideways, and are mostly pale,
with dark markings. Generally, such spiders follow their prey, since
they are good runners, but a few have the habit of living in ambush,
ready to spring upon insects that come near.

Very common in gardens are the _Saltici_. Most people have seen one
species in particular, which is grey, the back and legs being barred
with white. This spider leaps upon its prey, and you may notice that it
always has a thread attached to some object. Probably it is a precaution
against slipping, in case the jump is a failure.

Some small, black, very agile spiders, which are found about our rooms,
and also out-of-doors, are evidently hunters; people call them
money-spiders, for it is supposed to be lucky should one of them crawl
over you, or come towards you. There is a spider popularly known as
daddy-long-legs, though this name is shared by other insects; it has a
narrow body, and long pale legs, with dark knee-joints. It is often
noticed roving about, for some reason or other; yet the species is a
web-maker; its web is usually in a dark corner.

A GIFT TO SIR THOMAS MORE.

Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor, and one of England's worthiest sons,
was one of the most upright of judges, at a time when so much could not
be said of every one. It is recorded of him, that on one occasion a
person who wished to move him to take a favourable view of her cause,
sent him a present of a pair of gloves, in which forty pieces of gold
were wrapped up. Sir Thomas accepted the gloves, but returned the gold,
saying that he did not like his gloves to have any lining.

THE GIANT OF THE TREASURE CAVES.

(_Concluded from page 371._)

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