leg-spread

Updated: May 12, 2025

Generally they ended by standing back to back and belabouring each other till one, or both, dropped dead. Sometimes, instead of putting two scorpions in the ring, by way of variation we used to catch another sworn foe and match him against a scorpion. This was the tarantula, a great hairy spider with a leg-spread covering the palm of the hand, another of the unpleasant inhabitants of El Chauth.

Antony Bluett - With Our Army in Palestine