“Here one second, gone the next. Can you bring a hummingbird down with an arrow?” he asks. “I’ve never tried. Not much meat on them,” I answer. “No. And you’re not one to kill for sport,” he says. “I bet they’d be hard to shoot, though.” “You could snare them maybe,” Gale says. His face takes on that distant look it wears when he’s working something out. “Take a net with a very fine mesh. Enclose an area and leave a mouth of a couple square feet. Bait the inside with nectar flowers. While they’re feeding, snap the mouth shut. They’d fly away from the noise but only encounter the far side of
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