wide enough to tumble in quickly, however 

 much he had eaten. And there he stayed 

 by day as long as I kept tabs on him. 



There was but one more interesting trait 

 that I discovered in the last days of the 

 summer, and that was his keenness in finding 

 the best hunting-grounds. Just behind his 

 den in the old apple-tree was a stone wall, 

 under which insects of all kinds were plenty. 

 K'dunk's den was on the east side, so that 

 the sun as it set threw the cool shade of the 

 wall over the place and brought our pet out 

 earlier than was his wont. In some way he 

 found out that the west side of the wall 

 caught and held the sun's last rays, and that 

 flies and all sorts of insects would light or . 

 crawl on the hot stones to get warm in the -; 

 late afternoon. He made a tunnel for him- P 

 self under the wall, just behind his den, and 

 would lie close beside a certain gray stone :v^' 

 on the west side, his gray color hiding him |j 

 perfectly, picking off the flies as :.,>;.;;:' 

 they lit with the quickness and fa&S&i&S. 

 certainty of a lizard. When bugs 

 and insects crawled out of their 



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