Then he rolled himself in his
cloak, and slept more soundly than an alderman after a civic feast.
CHAPTER XXIII
HOW NANCE SENT FOOD AND HOPE TO HIM
Next morning, when he crawled out of his burrow, Gard found everything
swathed in dense white mist. Upon which he promptly lit his fire, and in
due course enjoyed a more satisfying meal than he had eaten since he
landed on the rock.
Then he decided to take advantage of the screening mist to explore such
parts of his prison-house as were not available to him at other times.
So he walked along the ridge, secure from observation since he could not
himself see down to the water from it, though the rushings and roarings
along the black ledges below never ceased.
Every nook and ledge of the out-cropping rock on the south side of the
ridge was occupied by lady gulls in all stages of their maternal duties.
From the surprise they expressed at his intrusion, and the way they
stuck to their nests, they were evidently quite unused to man and his
ways, and it was all he could do to avoid stepping on them and their
squawking families as he picked his way along.
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