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8 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES.
with a hatchet, a daily occur
found on a prairie in a hilly
rance, and hogs killed with a region, below a large conglombutcher
knife-all offer a slow death erated globular cactus where the
and the incarnate fiend in whole brood was dug out and
human flesh, the murderer, stabs photo reproduced. It is quite a
or shoots a fellow being to death rare specimen and more fully
without much warning. The described already in another chapvenomous
animals, however, in seek ter of these reminiscenses on Texas
of food or as a means of self-defence insects and reptiles.
inoculate their victims with a The second illustration (p. 9)
powerful narcotic secretion which, shows endparts of two scorpion's
after paralyzing the nerve centers, tail considerably magnified and
gradually kills the victim or makes exposing some of the interior anathim
immune against resistance. omy, with the venomducts, and the
THE TEXAS SCORPION glandular protuberance at the base-RVED TAIL)
On page 7 is depicted the femalepart of each of the claws, all of
scorpion with nearly full grown which is encased in a horny shell,
you ng ones, magnified nearly one which covers th e entire tailjointsnd
time its natural size. It was and the upper body parts.
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Menger, Rudolph. Texas Nature Observations and Reminiscences, book, 1913; San Antonio, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth14396/m1/8/?q=menger: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.