breadcrumbs

[Laurence Horn]

On Sep 17, 2012, at 2:38 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>> The birdies ate the breadcrumbs, IIRC.
>
> I hate it when the solution turns out to be trivially obvious.

Well, it wasn't obvious to H & G, who failed to control for birds (and/or for Grimm, Grimm et al. wanting to prolong the suspense).

LH
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