Is that a spider bite or a church service?

Class is always in session at the Lode house.  Even before I’m fully caffeinated.  This morning it started with Caleb’s query, “Are Tarantula’s poisonous?”
My usual answer: Get the encyclopedia!  So he did.  And he read.  We both learned that once upon a time folks thought that a bite from a tarantula caused a disease called [...]