CHAPTER XXI 



More Discoveries 



While William was gathering pine-knots on the 

 mountain one afternoon, he disturbed a scorpion's 

 siesta, and, not being one oi those fortunate, im- 

 mune persons who can handle scorpions with im- 

 punity, he was stung on the tip ot his finger. 



Fig. 40, The scorpion. Notice the sting at the lower end, looking like 



a cat's claw 



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