“Yes, it is,” agreed Charlotte. “But I can’t help it. I don’t know how the first spider in the early days of the world”
happened to think up this fancy idea of spinning a web, but she did, and it was clever of her, too.
And since then, all of us spiders have had to work the same trick. It’s not a bad pitch, on the whole.
“It’s cruel,” replied Wilbur, who did not intend to be argued out of his position.
“Well, you can’t talk,” said Charlotte. “You have your meals brought to you in a pail. Nobody feeds me.”
I have to get my own living. I live by my wits. I have to be sharp and clever, lest I go hungry.”
I have to think things out, catch what I can, take what comes.”
And it just so happens, my friend, that what comes is flies and insects and bugs.”
And furthermore,” said Charlotte, shaking one of her legs,
do you realize that if I didn’t catch bugs and eat them, bugs would increase and multiply
and get so numerous that they’d destroy the earth, wipe out everything?
“Really?” said Wilbur. “I wouldn’t want that to happen. Perhaps your web is a good thing after all.”
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