Show Pleasure and Profit in Scorpion Hunting One of the must most peculiar hunting 1 ex expeditions PIll on n record recerd I Is that hut which takes I I place at nt more or less Is regular Intervals Inter vals vala In the HIP town of Mardine In A Asia ta III Minor hour The Cite town to h Is surrounded h by an ant rh dent nt tt willis walls built buill t lo 10 o 1 protect ett It t t ten t t tit In en dr rs and anal bidden In plates place in these e walls II ore are re hurries hordes of If senrI on n line which often become a n menace toilie to Ie the Ilip po population In or order to 10 keep beep down the Ihl nil ot of these pests auld to In he Iw death di dealing n a bonus I Is Ill I h h tit the nail and regular hunts ere organized The hunts bunts take place MI nt night when llen till the hunters aimed with Ith lanterns poke Ink n II round III I the willis walls and III dislodge tho the The n. n next neyr 1 du shit they carry them lo to the town and collect oller the money mony due them ns as a reward It II frequently happens that must wait upon the pleasure of that official when they while away the rhe time rime h by malting Lashing their ferocious cu cup cup- p s manse engage In is J Ilet III s are ure made on I the III results and und It II often oran happens that Ihal members of the wall pally party lIa have lost lea their money before they re re- leh cehe I It |