About a spider
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About a spider.
Okay. Once there was a house upon a hill, and a spider lived there. Nobody else lived in the house, not any people nor any dogs nor even any flies, so the spider often got hungry. When he was hungry he would have to walk to the market and catch flies, because that's what spiders eat. Then he'd walk back to the house and make more webs.
Because nobody lived in the house but the spider, the house soon filled up with the webs the spider made, until there was no room for anything else. All the rooms were full of spiderwebs, wherever you went.
One day a man came to the house on the hill, who was the great-great-grandson of the last person to live there. He wanted to live in the house, so he opened the door and looked in. But he couldn't see anything-- do you know why? Because the house was so full of spiderwebs.
Well, he went in and tried to walk for some way, but he tripped because he couldn't see, and fell on the floor and cut his leg open. Blood came out. So the spider came over to see what was going on, and asked what was the matter.
"I've cut my leg open," said the man, "and it hurts. Please could I have a Band-Aid?"
"I don't have any Band-Aids," said the spider. "I live in this house all on my own, so I don't have anything that people need. But if you like, I can try to spin a Band-Aid for your leg."
He spun his way down and began wrapping his silk around and around the man's bleeding leg. Soon he had made a Band-Aid, and the man's leg stopped bleeding.
"Thank you." said the man. "I'd like to live in this house, and it's all full of spiderwebs you've made. Could I send them to the hospital?" And the spider agreed that this would be a good idea. So along came a truck, which they loaded with spiderwebs, and off it drove to the hospital, with the spider sitting on the top.
The spider decided to live at the hospital and make new Band-Aids for everyone. He talked to all the children there, except the ones who were afraid of spiders: he didn't talk to those. Now he was eating human food instead of just flies from the market, he found that whatever he ate changed the colour of the webs he span: bananas made yellow ones, tomatoes made red ones, watermelons made pink ones and cotton candy made stripy ones. So all the people in the hospital had many colours of Band-Aids to put on their bodies wherever they got cut. And that's the end of the story.