Crossword-Solution: HEXAPOD 7 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 20

There sat Benedict with what he persuaded himself was some new African hexapod perched upon his head, and agitated by doubts as to the direction in which it would move.

His momentary feeling of astonishment, however, gave way to his eagerness to follow up the hexapod, and he continued burrowing like a ferret.

HEXAPOD STORIES Twelve stories about the six-footed creatures, the fascinating little insects that children see every day.

FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: _Hexapod Stories_, page 80.] III PETER PIPER One was named Sandy, because Sandy is a Scotch name and there were blue-bells growing on the rocks; so it seemed right that one of them should have a Scotch name, and what could be better, after all, than Sandy for a sandpiper? One was named Pan, because he piped sweetly among the reeds by the river.

Just what performances they gave along the way, I did not hear; but with a whole flock of flying clowns on the wing, it seems likely that they had a gay time of it altogether! FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 2: See _Hexapod Stories_, pages 4, 110, 126.] X THE LOST DOVE _One Thousand Dollars ($1000) Reward_ That is the prize that has been offered for a nesting pair of Passenger Pigeons.