Question is from the story 'THE SPIDER AND THE FLY ' Question is ' THE EVIL SPIDER FELLS TRIUMPHANT AFTER A HEARTY MEAL WHICH HE MADE OF THE FLY . WRITE A BRIEFE LETTER TO ANOTHER SPIDER FRIEND AND TELLS HER HOW HE FOOLED THE FLY.
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If ever there were a story for children with a terrible warning, it is this. You will find it hard to miss the moral of this classic verse from the Victorian era. Natasha reads the Spider as a silky-throated villain, who weaves his web with flattery. His victim is the gauzy-winged fly.
Colin the Carp has a different interpretation. He thinks that flies are just scrumptious.
Mary Howitt has double-fame in the realm of Children’s literature. She was the first English translator of Hans Christian Andersen.
Read by Natasha. Duration 6.30.
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A translation by Mary Howitt of “The True Story of my Life” by Hans Christian Andersen.
Text of The Spider and the fly by Mary Howitt (1799 to 1888).
“Will you walk into my parlour?” said the Spider to the Fly,
‘Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy;
The way into my parlour is up a winding stair,
And I have many curious things to show you when you are there.”
“Oh no, no,” said the Fly, “to ask me is in vain;
For who goes up your winding stair can ne’er come down again.”