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Cormorant Crag

CHAPTER NINETEEN
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I was too much fagged to put it straight.

When shall we go and see him ?" "I dunno.

I don't want to move, and I don't want to have to tell him.
He'll be as savage as can be." The boys lay perfectly still now, without speaking or moving; and the gulls came up from below, to see what was the meaning of four legs hanging over the cliff in a row, and then became more puzzled apparently on finding two bodies lying there at the edge; consequently they sailed about to and fro, with their grey backs shining as they wheeled round and gazed inquiringly down, till one, bolder than the rest, alighted about a dozen yards away.
"Keep your eyes shut, Ladle," said Vince.

"Birds are coming to peck 'em out." "They'd better not," said Mike.
"I say, couldn't we train some gulls, and harness them to a sort of chair, and make them fly with us off the cliff?
They could do it if they'd only fly together.

I wonder how many it would take." "Bother the old gulls! Don't talk nonsense.


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