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had brought. " Rudest of gypsies, how they squalled, 

 and laughed, and snored, and rolled about ! Some were 

 sucking bird-skins ; others were boiling incredible num- 

 bers of auks in huge soapstone pots; and two young- 

 sters, crying, at the top of their voices, ' Oopegsoak 1 

 oopegsoak 1 ' were fighting for an owl. 



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M/TI- BOY CATCHING AUKS. 



" There was enough to make them improvident. The 

 little auks were breeding in the low cones of rubbish 

 under the cliffs in such numbers that it cost them no 

 more to get food than it does a cook to gather vegeta- 

 bles. A boy, ordered to climb the rocks with one of 



