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water's edge. Then granddad had a great idea. 

 He saw his chance to kill every one of those 

 infernal telltales where they sat. He studied on 

 the size of that circle for a minute. Then he put 

 the long barrel of that old gun between two 

 swamp cedar stumps and bent on it carefully. He 

 kept doing this, looking at the circle, then bend- 

 ing the gun barrel till he had the gun bent just 

 on the curve of the circle of yellow-legs sitting 

 round the pond. Then he smiled for he knew 

 he had 'em. He crept carefully into the dogwood 

 bushes till he was in just the right place, took a 

 good aim round that circle, and then he onlatched 

 on 'em. 



"Well, he'd figured that circle just right. The 

 shot swung round it and killed every one of them 

 seven hundred and sixty-two - yellow-legs right 

 where they stood. But tarnation! He'd for- 

 gotten all about himself, he was so interested in 

 the science of it. The back of his neck was right 

 in that circle and the shot came round true as 

 could be and hit him right there. The force of 

 it was pretty well spent going so far and killing 

 so many yellow-legs, but it dented some bits of 

 dogwood leaves right into his system and he had 



