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in the light wind, the buzzard wheeling in 

 lone circles far above them. They did not 

 pause to watch, however, for there was a 

 dangerous job on hand, and it was three 

 miles to the Point. 



The three hunters kept a sharp look-out 

 for the ravens, but saw nothing, even when 

 they neared the lip of the Hole. 



Aaron dropped his bar, the tackle was 

 flung on the sward, and coats were stripped 

 off. Work began in earnest. The first 

 few powerful twangs of the sledge-hammer 

 on the bar woke echoes in the Hole, and a 

 thousand gulls spread pearly wings tipped 

 with jet and slipped into the air. An 

 uproar of hoarse voices came upwards, and, 

 mounting high, a great seabird, spanning 

 near six feet, dived at them with a sough- 

 ing of vast wings and passed a bare 

 two feet over their heads. But the men 

 took no notice. Time was precious, and 

 they feared that the policeman might dis- 

 cover them; the terrifying thought of prison 



