Among the queer forms of animal life that inhabit Death Valley is a mouse that has acquired such a taste for scorpions that they form its entire bill of fare. The scorpion carries its formidable. armament in the end of its slender, elongated abdomen, in the shape of an extremely venomous hooked sting, When disturbed it elevates this in the air and goes in search of its disturber. But it is comparatively slow in its motions, while mice are proverbial for their quickness the world over. The mouse learned many generations ago where the scorpion carries its weapon, and when he meets it he leaps at the uplifted abdomen, takes off the sting at a single bite, and proceeds to make a meal of his helpless prey.
Waterbury Evening Democrat, Waterbury, CT, May 10, 1893