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Of course, he smashed the scorpion first, before 

 attending to the sting, which he treated Hke a rat- 

 tlesnake bite. Wrapping a cord tightly around his 

 finger, he opened the wound with his knife and 

 squeezed and sucked out the poisoned blood. The 

 finger swelled a good deal, but in a few days it was 

 all right again. 



Before killing the little pest, he could not help 



noticing how it held up its ''tail," with the poison 



fang on it, and moved it about above the rest of its 



body as a duellist would guard himself with his 



sword. 



Logwood Honey 



A more interesting discovery was made while the 

 boys were cutting a new tree for their museum. It 

 proved to be hollow and burst open when it fell, re- 

 vealing a store of honey and a swarm of bees. Re- 

 turning after dark, they smoked the bees into a new- 

 ly constructed hive and took them and their honey 

 home in triumph. This was the beginning of bee- 

 farming, with all its excitements and pleasures. 

 The bees found the flowers about the house attrac- 

 tive, but seemed to like the logwood trees best. 



Snowball is Rescued 



Snowball had been discovering the alphabet, with 

 Edna's help, for over an hour and he decided to run 



