Just Jaunting Round

Lethal kiss

"It was not a meal of chewing, grinding, tearing flesh; on the contrary, it was the daintiest manner of supping..."

-5 fangs Now we are prone to say Gave 1tlethal kiss Ppoison imbued Butthink that is wrong-it is my thought that she tested withpoisontereing of her fangs the effect of the paralizing she had done for she quickly withirew after the dab mo rovement Then she walked over her prostrate meal still alive with all the unconoern of one who knows 1t is harmless The oricket was still alive but the powerful legs were inoapadle to that mighty lunge which she feared might loosen from the web She had just tested whether 1t could respond prick of not It couldn So she walked over it testing 1t hare testing 1t there with dab of fangs Evidently she was hungry amd wanted to eat at once fow skeins of fine silky yarn were thrown about thoss big eand pomerful legs and then within twenty minutes of trussing her foe she started her meal But 1t was notmeal of chewing grinding tearing flesh on the contrary it was the daintiest manner of supping- tiny hole was pierced and to it her mouth applied and she sat and sucked juices fromstill live ericket had been reading Fabre the Homer of Inseots who stated that several times he had unloosened all the bands on trussed orioket and found that it could walk when free of its bonds but that the walk wasstaggering ill-timed weakened walk Bore meohantonl than direoted and that in twenty four hours his loosened oricket died So here before my eyes was this dainty stilasto using gamester not yetmurderess but at the least an ogre about her business of wrapping amd then skillfully jabbing just Digital image 2003 Beckwith Family Al rights reserved