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 no Bird -Lore been hauled up on the last faithful strand of a rope, with his hair standing on end, his face o'erspread with an unspeakable horror, and then fainted dead away on reaching terra finiia. I have heard a lot of terrible tales about chafing ropes, but as DESCENDING AN 0'EH H ANGI NCr CLIFF From Kearton's ' Wild Life at Home,' copyrighted by Cassell & Co., Ltd. a matter of fact, there are dangers a thousand times greater if less picturesque ; such, for instance, as a prosaic little stone, no bigger than an orange, being dragged out of its bed by one of the ropes when the