ninety rose-bugs without stopping. Another 

 afternoon, when three boys appeared at the 

 same hour, we put our catch together, a 

 varied assortment of flies, bugs, and creeping 

 things, a hundred and sixty-four head all 

 told. Before dark K'dunk had eaten them 

 all, and went hopping off to the garden on 

 his night's hunting as if he had net already 

 done enough to prove himself our friend for 

 the entire summer. 



Later we adopted a different plan and ^ 

 made the game come to K'dunk on its own 

 wings, instead of running all over creation 

 ourselves to catch it for him. Near the 

 barn was a neglected drain where the flies v 

 were numerous enough to warn us to look ^ Jj 

 after our sanitation more zealously. Here I 

 built a little cage of wire netting, in which I 

 placed a dead rat and some scraps from the ^\^> 

 table. When the midday sun found them 

 and made them odorous, big flies began to 

 pour in, with the loud buzzing which seems 

 to be a signal to their fellows; for in ordi- 

 nary flight the same flies 

 are almost noiseless. Once, 



