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The boy was not.

He plopped a chair beneath the spider’s web and crawled up. Tommy felt his one leg stretch as far as it would go. He gripped his web with all his strength, but his leg snapped off. The blue-eyed boy screeched in joy, then plucked another leg.

As the spider, in agony, folded its four remaining legs to its belly, the boy jumped off the chair. He ran to his nightstand and repeated the ritual with Tommy's legs, the tissue, and the box.

Tommy flopped on his silken web. He imagined he clambered up his cord, but it is not easy to climb when you're not sure which legs you have and which you don't.