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Show Sport That Is Rather Cruet. The scorpion is a bad bedfellow, and he has a mean trick of hiding in your boots aud Btinging you when you put ' them on. But you can have fun with hira after a fashion. If yon want to ; bring out the best qualities of a scorpion build a little corral of dry leaves or paper around him and set lire to it at all points. Make the circle about a foot in diameter, so that the flames will not touch your prisoner. When he sees the ring of fire the scorpion will try to escape, es-cape, first at one place and then at another, an-other, but the flames will drive him back every time, and when he realizes that he is completely surrounded he will retreat to the center of the ring and deliberately de-liberately commit suicide by curling his tail over and stinging himself in the back, bo you see that nature snnctions suicide under some circumstances in spite of what the preachers say about it. The scorpion teaches a lesson that a man had better remember if he finds himself in the center of a gang of Apaches. j Francisco Examiner. |