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something to satisfy its intense hunger, would, on reaching 

 the lower levels, come across the meat gallows, where very 

 likely the carcase of a sheep would hang, or at least some 

 skins with pieces of meat and fat still adhering to them 

 would be thrown over the fence to dry. 



In trying everything with its powerful beak to see if it 

 were edible, it would soon taste the pieces on the skins or 



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THE MEAT GALLOWS on which Sheep for home coNSniiPTiON 



ARE HUNi; AFTER THKY HAVE BEEN KILLED. 



even from the carcase itself ; and, finding them much to his 

 taste and easily procurable, it would soon acquire a liking 

 for them. 



If the skins and carcase were absent, there would 

 always be a number of sheep's heads scattered around the 

 gallows, and the Keas could there always find something to 

 eat. 



