... In most of the old stone houses you will occasionally see spiders of
terrifying size,--measuring across perhaps as much as six inches from
the tip of one outstretched leg to the tip of its opposite fellow, as
they cling to the wall. I never heard of any one being bitten by them;
and among the poor it is deemed unlucky to injure or drive them away....
But early this morning Yzore swept her house clean, and ejected through
the door-way quite a host of these monster insects. Manm-Robert is quite
dismayed:--
--"_Jesis-Maïa!--ou 'lè malhè éncò fou fai ça, chè?_" (You want
to have still more bad luck, that you do such a thing?)