"Come! we must go back," said the latter, "the game's not up yet;"
and he again led the way to the tulip-tree.
"Jupiter," said he, when we reached its foot, come here! was the
skull nailed to the limb with the face outward, or with the face to
the limb?"
"De face was out, massa, so dat de crows could get at de eyes
good, widout any trouble."
"Well, then, was it this eye or that through which you let the
beetle fall?" --here Legrand touched each of Jupiter's eyes.
"'Twas dis eye, massa --de lef' eye --jis as you tell me," and
here it was his right eye that the negro indicated.
"That will do --we must try it again."
Here my friend, about whose madness I now saw, or fancied that I
saw, certain indications of method, removed the peg which marked the
spot where the beetle fell, to a spot about three inches to the
westward of its former position. Taking, now, the tape-measure from
the nearest point of the trunk to the peg, as before, and continuing
the extension in a straight line to the distance of fifty feet, a spot
was indicated, removed, by several yards, from the point at which we
had been digging.
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