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...other soft-drink makers he has eaten over 10,000 such creatures, including grasshoppers, crickets, sow bugs, snails, toads, frogs, caterpillars, earthworms, salamanders, tiger beetles, click beetles, praying mantes, stink bugs, kissing bugs, bumblebees and poisonous Central American centipedes. Once he added a flair by eating a black widow spider alive...
...song they used to sing at the Old Howard. You are not unfamiliar with it, perhaps, Rosemary?... Not at all... in fact very flattering. Very, very Herry. That's the way Mr. Jaunders used to pronounce it. Not Jaunders... won't you dawdle in my bordel said the spider to the fly. Who, I, said the fly? Not "me," you notice. Erotica Vagabondis...
...nine paintings, "Cyclamen," "Spider Wort," "Yellow Iris," "Spring Flowers," "Victorian Parlour," "Autumn Flowers," "Peonies," "Still Life," and "Bee Balm" are arranged over the book shelves, which are covered with light brown paper to give a monotone background...
...patient's daughter it was mutual love at a glance, but she found out who he was. Their ways parted-it seemed, finally. But thanks to a crippled old clergyman, who was a perfect dynamo of spiritual energy, their stories began to knit together again. Like a beneficent spider Dean Harcourt sat in the midst of things, giving out his potent secret of the desperate flies that came into his parlor. His comforting message: The race of men is what counts, not the individual. Finally even Dr. Endicott got it: "No matter. A few are hurt, here and there...
Black and swollen, one morning, was the right little finger of Cinemactor Warner Baxter. By noon his right hand and arm were throbbing painfully. They, too, were black and swollen before a doctor determined that a Black Widow spider had bitten Baxter while he slept...