All the baby spiders in the nursery
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waving to each other clinging to their mothers
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and smile at their dads who say
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"Now that's a clever lad"
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One particular spider, who's parents had named Ira, fell out of his mother's
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arms and became lost inside the giant insect hospital. Since mother spiders give
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birth to so many babies at one time it is exceedingly difficult to keep track of
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all of them and sometimes a baby will get lost without it's mother ever being
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aware of its absence. Ira was just such a case. He crawled about for hours
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crying but his mother couldn't hear him for Ira was a mute. This is where the
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story gets interesting.
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He opened his mouth and discovered a lake in a crater on his tongue. He was
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thirsty so he drank from the lake. This proved to be a fatal mistake as the lake
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was really a cake filled with poisonous snakes, and Ira died.
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A nurse discovered dead baby Ira and sank with grief. She gently lifted him up
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to her breast and carried him weeping to the head nurse to see if any baby
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spiders had been reported missing. The head nurse checked her missing baby
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spider file and told her that "No, no missing baby spiders have been reported."
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The nurse holding dead baby Ira then asked if they could have a funeral for him.
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The head nurse, being a very caring grasshopper, agreed that that would be the
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proper thing to do. So they dug a small hole near a yellow tulip, held a brief
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but moving requiem and with great sadness buried baby Ira.
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Miraculously, Ira was quickly reincarnated as a wild horse on the far off planet
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called Nearly. on Nearly, wild horses hold the majority in the senate and Ira
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has discovered pudding. His favorite is the kind without raisins.
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All the baby spiders in the nursery
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waving to each other clinging to their mothers
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and smile at their dads who say
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"Now that's a clever lad"
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Ira's Brief Life as a Spider
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| Of Montreal |
