however, they find a bit of carrion fit for their 

 eggs, they buzz about loudly every few min- 

 utes, and other flies hear them ; whereupon 

 their quiet flight changes to a loud buzzing. 

 So the news spreads at least this seems 

 y? to help the matter and flies pour in from 

 every direction. 



At three o'clock I brought K'dunk from 

 his meditations under the door-step and set 

 him down in the cage, screening him with a 

 big rhubarb leaf so that the sun would not 

 dazzle his eyes too much. Then I took out 

 my watch and sat down on a rock to count. 



In the first ten minutes K'dunk got barely 

 a dozen flies. They were wary of him in the 

 bright light, and he was not yet waked up to 

 the occasion. Then he crouched down be- 

 tween the rat and the scraps, worked a hol- 

 low for himself where he could turn without 

 being noticed, and the red tongue-play began 

 in earnest. In the next half hour he got 

 sixty-six flies, an average of over two a min- 

 ute. In an hour his record was a hundred 

 and ten ; and before I left him he had added 

 two dozen more to the score of our enemies. 



