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Rh 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



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.