When Fern told her mother that Avery had tired to hit the Zuckerman's spider with a stick,
Mrs. Arable was so shocked that she sent Avery to bed without any supper as punishment.
In the days that followed, Mr. Zuckerman was so busy entertaining visitors that he neglected his farm work.
He wore his good clothes all the time now- got right into them when he got up in the morning.
Mrs. Zuckerman prepared special meals for Wilbur.
Lurvy shaved and got a haircut; and his principal farm duty was to feed the pig while people looked on.
Mr. Zuckerman ordered Lurvy to increase Wilbur's feedings from three meals a day to four meals a day.
The Zuckerman were so busy with visitors they forgot about other things on the farm.
The blackberries got ripe, and Mrs. Zuckerman failed to put up any blackberry jam.
The corn needed hoeing, and Lurvy didn't find time to hoe it.
On Sunday the church was full. The minister explained the miracle.
He said that the words on the spider's web proved that human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders.
All in all, the Zuckermans' pigpen was the center of attraction.
Fern was happy, for she felft that Charlotte's trick was working and that Wlibur's life would be saved.
But she found that the barn was not nearly as pleasant- too many people.
She liked it better when she could be all alone with her friends and animals.
