For money or for love.
Stands on stool, suddenly grasps the spider, and taking the plate from beneath stool, places the spider on it, and breaks the thread which held it.
At length she got upon a stool,
And with an effort great,
She had the spider in her grasp
And put him on a plate.
Cat’s jaw opens. Maiden drops spider in front of cat’s mouth, and cat closes her mouth.
The cat, who watched with eager eyes,