After witnessing a spider rapidly descend from the ceiling on a web not far from me, I thought about the old nursery rhyme 'Little Miss Muffet.' As you may recall, the rhyme goes something like this:
Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet,
Eating her curds and whey;
Along came a big spider,
Who sat down beside her,
And frightened Miss Muffet away.
After watching my particular spider drop into my
hoya plant and scuttle away, I decided to amend the rhyme as follows:
Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet,
Eating her curds and whey;
Along came a big spider,
Who sat down beside her,
So, she squashed it dead.
—Mitchell Hegman
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