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Identifier: littlefolksinfea00mill (find matches)
Title: Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: (Miller, Harriet (Mann) Mrs.), 1831- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., Dustin, Gilman & co. Cincinnati, Ohio, Queen city publishing co. (etc., etc.)
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e curious half-moon doors, they just pour alittle water in. Now, the Scorpion hates water nearly as much ashe does sunlight; so, of course, he flies out in a rage, snapping hisjaws, and whisking his tail, ready for a fight. The hunter thensticks a spade into the ground, so that he cant get back into hishouse, and soon puts an end to him. Theres another curious custom of his. So fierce and wild ishis spirit, that when he finds himself trapped, when he cant getaway from the hated sunlight, he refuses to live, and deliberatelycommits suicide. This seems hard to believe; but one man who 186 LITTLE FOLKS lived in India, where Scorpions are very numerous, tried the experi-ment of putting one inside of a circle of fire. The unfortunatelittle fellow could not endure the light, and could not go throughthe fire ; so, after running about a little, and finding himself a fastprisoner, he deliberately raised his tail—in which is his sting—andstung himself in the back, and died in a few minutes.
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This was tried a good many times on different Scorpions, andthe plucky little fellows never failed to kill themselves when theyfound they could not get out. ^ Disagreeable as they are to us, they have a use, for they eatmillions of insects, and eggs of insects and spiders, that would beeven more troublesome than the Scorpions. IN FEATHERS AND FUR. 187 Mamma Scorpion carries her little ones on her back for severaldays, till they are able to run about themselves, and she takes careof them for a month. This is very unusual, I want you to know.Most insects leave the little ones to look out for themselves. The Arab boys catch Scorpions by putting wax on a stick,and running it into the hole in a wall where the animal is. Thecross little fellow is sure to run his claws into the wax, but, unfor-tunately, he cant get them out, so the boy drags him out withouttrouble. 188 LITTLE FOLKS YOUR LITTLE SERVANTS. I don t suppose you know much about your little Servants, whowork for you all the long Su

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