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with no sign of how they had gone. He 

 thought of hawks, and waited all that 

 afternoon with a gun, but nothing came. 

 He knew that had it been a kestrel the 

 bird would have returned for more. Another 

 morning he lost seventeen. Nine of them 

 had been left mutilated lumps of stained 

 feathers. They looked as though a spike 

 had been driven through their bodies. He 

 knew that it was no ordinary thing that 

 caused the destruction. 



Mortality among the lambs continued. 

 And then, one night in the Nightcrow Inn, 

 light came to them. They slapped their 

 thighs, and rattled their pint mugs ; of 

 course, it could only be " thay " ravens! Till 

 closing time that night it was the only 

 subject talked about. 



The Tiger was there and his brother 

 Aaron two men who belonged to a family 

 that has been famous for cliff scaling in the 

 district for many generations. They had 

 immense arms, being blacksmiths. 



