"So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish: Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web."—Job viii.
1081. Why does the bat sleep during the winter?
Because, as the winter approaches, the moths and flying insects upon which it feeds, disappear. If, therefore, it did not sleep through the winter it must have starved.
Fig. 71.—BAT WITH HOOKED WINGS.
1082. Why has the spider the power of spinning a web?
Because, as it lives upon flies, but is deficient of the power of flying in pursuit of them, it has been endowed with an instinct to spread a snare to entrap them, and with the most wonderful machinery to give that instinct effect.