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"But if you will go to the Newman ranch-house for me and ask them to send the buckboard I'll be very grateful. I I feel dizzy, you know." "Gee whiz!" exclaimed the young man. "There's no time for me to run about the desert if you have a scorpion sting in your foot!" "Is a scorpion sting dangerous?" asked Rhoda. Then she added, languidly, "Not that I mind if it is!"
One is an object of taunts for her ignorance; another for a plain face; a third for an impediment in her speech; and how many suffer this infliction for some article of dress proscribed by that mistress called fashion. Too often are we reminded of the fabulous Melusina, to-day, a theme of wonder, for her grace and eloquence, to-morrow, a loathsome reptile, with a tongue full of scorpion stings.
To set it forth necessitates a digression which seems to have nothing to do with the subject in hand and is nevertheless connected with it in the closest fashion. Without certain preliminaries, the remainder would be unintelligible. So now for the preliminaries. I was in those days busy with the poison of the Languedocian scorpion and its action upon insects.
"Well, anything on newspapers, or perhaps what you've done yourself, starting them." And off the boys went, for we had reach'd the Philadelphia side. The hour was fine and mild, the bright half-moon shining; Venus, with excess of splendor, just setting in the west, and the great Scorpion rearing its length more than half up in the southeast.
The police were moving from bunk to bunk, scrutinising the occupants. The uproar had penetrated to them even in their drugged slumbers. There were stirrings and mutterings and movements of yellow hands. "But where is 'The Scorpion'?" He turned and stared at the wall from which the matting had been torn.
What a silly thing you were, Fly, to burst out laughing at breakfast, and then say that Scorpion was in his grave." "But it was so true, David. That hole looked exactly like a grave." "But you have drawn suspicion upon you. Now, Mrs. Cameron certainly doesn't suspect me. See what she has given me: this beautiful new two-shilling piece.
The sealed letter had achieved its purpose in part. Although I had failed to locate the house from which these people operated, I could draw a circle on the map within which I knew it to be; and I had learned that Zara el-Khala and the Hindu were in London. What it all meant to what end "The Scorpion" was working I did not know.
On these evidences it would seem just, for the present, to set down the scorpion and the centipede as painful, rather than dangerous, assailants. Diseased imagination could invent no creature more horrific of appearance than the tarantula.
"How sorry I am now that I hadn't collected more of these curious insects! Some we have met with were very curious." You must recollect, too, that the spider is akin to the scorpion." "Yes; but scorpions don't know how to spin." "Well, all spiders do not possess this art.
I am at this moment rearing, in large earthen pans, with a bed of sand and with potsherds for shelter, a hideous menagerie which hardly comes up to my expectations as regards the study of morals. I will profit by it in another way. It consists of some twenty-four specimens of Buthus occitanus, the large White Scorpion of the south of France.
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