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crowbar had not been driven far into the ground, 

 on account of its rocky nature, and just as his head 

 was about to disappear below the edge of the cliff, 

 he happened to look up at it, and was horrified 

 to see the rope running round its top instead of 

 its bottom, and the whole thing so bent over by 

 the leverage of his weight, that, instead of inclin- 

 ing away from him, it was pointing almost straight 

 over his head. A frantic yell brought the careless 



rascal to his senses, or 

 in another instant the 

 crowbar would have been 

 pulled out of the ground 

 and the rope jerked 

 from his hands. Some 

 attendants have a repre- 

 hensible knack of trying 

 to look over the cliff at 

 the descending photo- 

 grapher whilst they mani- 

 pulate the rope, which is 

 by no means reassuring 

 to the man below. 

 It has, however, its humorous side, for one day 

 on the Irish coast my brother and a friend were 

 caught by the tide and imprisoned in a cave they 

 had stayed too long to investigate. My brother 

 essayed an extremely difficult and dangerous climb 

 to get out and procure assistance. When he had 

 accomplished about half of his perilous task, he 

 observed the end of a rope gliding down over 

 the face of the cliff towards the mouth of the 

 cave. The coachman, and an assistant whose ser- 

 vices had been requisitioned for the day, had 

 grasped the situation and were lowering the means 

 of rescue. 



CARRION CROW'S NEST. 



