The method, therefore, was changed during the night.

To extract the non-fluent residue, the viscera and muscles, the stiff cuticle had to be tapped here, there and elsewhere, after which the tattered husk, placed bodily in the press of the mandibles, would have been chewed, re-chewed and finally reduced to a pill, which the sated Spider throws up.

This would have been the end of the victim, had I not taken it away before the time.
Whether she wound or kill, the Epeira bites her captive somewhere or other, no matter where.

This is an excellent method on her part, because of the variety of the game that comes her way.

I see her accepting with equal readiness whatever chance may send her: Butterflies and Dragon-flies, Flies and Wasps, small Dung-beetles and Locusts.