opened them again there was another light- 

 ning-bug glowing in the grass just where the 

 first had been. So he kept the tiny bot- 

 tle jumping about the lawn at the repeated 

 laps of his tongue, blinking and swallowing 

 betweenwhiles until the glow-worm, made 

 dizzy perhaps by the topsy-turvy play of his 

 strange cage, folded his wings and hid his 

 little light. Whereupon K'dunk hopped 

 away, thinking, no doubt, in his own way, 

 that while lightning-bugs were unusually 

 thick that night and furnished the prettiest 

 kind of hunting, they were very poor satis- 

 faction to a hungry stomach, not to be 

 compared with what he could get by 

 ~\ jumping up at the insects that hid on 

 i>^> \ the under side of the leaves on every 

 plant in the garden. 



It needed no words of mine by this 

 time to convince the good Mrs. James 

 that K'dunk was her friend. Indeed 

 she paid a small boy ten cents apiece 

 ' / ^/~h for a half dozen toads to turn 

 >/ c loose about the premises to help 

 fj c*-, K'dunk in his excellent work. 



