A high school kid in a decidedly unliterary North Dakota town is nicknamed after a beast from Beowulf?

Don does this to catch Deadheaders - birds which circle the wrong way and won't leave the release site. By his precise records, Don can remove deadheaders by a process of elimination.

The missionaries have prepared a sort of penal tariff to facilitate judicial proceedings. … The judge being provided with a book, in which all these matters are cunningly arranged, the thing is vastly convenient. For instance: a crime is proved,—say, bigamy; turn to letter B.—and there you have it. Bigamy:—forty days on the Broom Road, and twenty mats for the queen. Read the passage aloud, and sentence is pronounced.

to be in broad agreement