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"
You
think
I
’
d
better
lay
off
using
the
twelve
-
bore
,
which
attracts
them
,
and
use
a
triffid
gun
instead
?
"
"
It
’
s
not
just
the
gun
,
it
’
s
all
noises
,
"
said
Susan
"
The
tractor
’
s
the
worst
because
it
is
a
loud
noise
,
and
it
keeps
on
,
so
that
they
can
easily
find
where
it
comes
from
.
But
they
can
hear
the
lighting
-
plant
engine
quite
a
long
way
too
.
I
’
ve
seen
them
turn
this
way
when
it
starts
up
.
"
"
I
wish
,
"
I
told
her
irritably
,
"
you
’
d
not
keep
on
saying
‘
they
hear
,
’
as
if
they
were
animals
.
They
’
re
not
They
don
’
t
‘
hear
.
’
They
’
re
just
plants
.
"
"
All
the
same
,
they
do
hear
,
somehow
,
"
Susan
retorted
stubbornly
.
"
Well
—
anyway
,
we
’
ll
do
something
about
them
,
"
I
promised
.
We
did
.
The
first
trap
was
a
crude
kind
of
windmill
which
produced
a
hearty
hammering
noise
.
We
fixed
it
up
about
half
a
mile
away
.
It
worked
.
It
drew
them
away
from
our
fence
,
and
from
elsewhere
.
When
there
were
several
hundreds
of
them
clustered
about
it
,
Susan
and
I
drove
over
there
and
turned
the
flame
throwers
on
them
.
It
worked
fairly
well
a
second
time
too
—
but
after
that
only
a
very
few
of
them
paid
any
attention
to
it
.
Our
next
move
was
to
build
a
kind
of
stout
bay
inward
from
the
fence
,
and
then
remove
part
of
the
main
fence
itself
,
replacing
it
by
a
gate
.
We
had
chosen
a
point
within
earshot
of
the
lighting
engine
,
and
we
left
the
gate
open
.
Alter
a
couple
of
days
we
dropped
the
gate
and
destroyed
the
couple
of
hundred
or
so
that
had
come
into
the
pen
.
That
,
too
,
was
fairly
successful
to
begin
with
,
but
not
if
we
tried
it
twice
in
the
same
place
,
and
even
in
other
places
the
numbers
we
netted
dropped
steadily
.
A
tour
of
the
boundaries
every
few
days
with
a
flame
thrower
could
have
kept
the
numbers
down
effectively
,
but
it
would
have
taken
a
lot
of
time
and
soon
have
run
us
out
of
fuel
.
A
flame
thrower
’
s
consumption
is
high
,
and
the
stocks
held
for
it
in
the
arms
depots
were
not
large
.
Once
we
finished
it
,
our
valuable
flame
throwers
would
become
little
better
than
junk
’
for
I
knew
neither
the
formula
for
an
efficient
fuel
nor
the
method
of
producing
it
.
On
the
two
or
three
occasions
we
tried
mortar
bombs
on
concentrations
of
triffids
the
results
were
disappointing
.
Triffid
share
with
trees
the
ability
to
take
a
lot
of
damage
without
lethal
harm
.
As
time
went
on
,
the
numbers
collected
along
the
fence
continued
to
increase
in
spite
of
our
traps
and
occasional
holocausts
.
They
didn
’
t
try
anything
,
or
do
anything
there
.
They
simply
settled
down
,
wriggled
their
roots
into
the
soil
,
and
remained
.
At
a
distance
they
looked
as
inactive
as
any
other
hedge
,
and
but
for
the
pattering
that
some
few
of
them
were
sure
to
be
making
,
they
might
have
been
no
more
remarkable
.
But
if
one
doubted
their
alertness
,
it
was
necessary
only
to
take
a
car
down
the
lane
.
To
do
so
was
to
run
a
gantlet
of
such
viciously
slashing
stings
that
it
was
necessary
to
stop
the
car
at
the
main
road
and
wipe
the
windscreen
clear
of
poison
.
