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holes to sun themselves awhile on a warm 

 stone, K'dunk, whose eye ranged up and 

 down over his hunting-ground, would lie 

 until they settled comfortably, and would 

 <^r <^r*jf ft then creep cautiously within range and snap 

 them up with a flash of his tongue that the 

 eye could scarcely follow. In a dozen after- 

 noons, watching him there, I never saw him 

 miss a single shot, while the number of flies 

 and insects he destroyed must have reached 

 up into the hundreds. 



In the same field four or five cows were 

 pastured, and on pleasant days they were 

 milked out of doors instead of being driven 

 into the barn. Now those who have watched 

 cows at milking time have probably noted 

 how the flies swarm on their legs, clustering 

 thickly above the hoofs, where the switch- 

 ing of a nervous tail cannot disturb them. 

 K'dunk had noted it too, and often during 

 the milking, when the cows were quiet, he 

 would approach a certain animal out of the 

 herd, creep up on one hoof after another 

 and snap off every fly wdthin reach. Then 

 he would jump for the highest ones, hitting 



