Show DOMESTIC SIGHTS SIGHT S IN INDIA I 1 was annil staying st 11 at the house of a fi bend holding iv in the north cin provinces when one evening after a shower of rain lie he prop proposed oed to to show me a few of the gentry that were in the habit of taking 0 refuge 0 with him when dirven out of their holes lie ile had seen one in the room a short while before and had deferred ried killing I 1 him until I 1 should come to bo be gratified tito the specimen was an ail eno inious black scorpion a most disgusting brute the fi of egiy hateful I 1 tat c f ill q quality ila li ty he 0 him with a whip lie he kept ept for the purpose tho the best thing to use as it is palpable pd pa liable and bends over a snake or other cica ture while a stick can call only touch him in ill one pait we then pursued our investigations lie he laid holo hole ofa of a door behind which something thin ani lit be found but immediately drew it back for lie had all but touched a large tarantula another most unsightly beast elsewhere in the room we found one centipede and in the ver verandah addah another we then sat down by a table and were chatting about the number of enormous am animals trials we so often come across without their hutting us and bellid te aling vailous smal i S stories lodes I 1 beading on oil the subject wit when in suddenly I 1 felt a sharp pair of claws seizing seizing my foot 1 I jumped up tip with an explanation expecting t to find a acol pion 1 only a black beetle I 1 I 1 must admit that I 1 never before or after saw so many mail y vermin atone time in ahouse aho bu the ground and the raim had driven tile the creatures out of their liole holes s all the year bound |