[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, I can
confirm the testimony of your correspondent, " C. J.," as to variety of character in spiders. I once spent a month with a friend in a wooden but in Norway. My friend, who is very fond of spiders, brought in two fine specimens of the same sort from outside, and established them in two corners of our primitive sitting-room. We named the one The Claimant' and the other `Achilles.' `The Claimant' was fat and entirely devoid of fear. When we held up flies to him, he would run out at once and take them out of our' fingers, and then fasten them up in his web. Achilles,' on the other hand, sulked in his tent, would never come out when we stood too near, and could never be tempted to leave- his secret chamber even by the most succulent of flies which we offered him. Onr curious little prot4ges were duly re- stored to their primeval freedom before we left, else they would undoubtedly have fallen victims to the good Nor- wegian woman who did for ne, and very much wished to dor
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