THE BOY WHO KNEW WHAT THE BIRDS SAID
crutch was blown out of the harbour and Feet-in-the-Ashes was left without any companion on the Island.
"Cluck, cluck, cluck," said the Hen-grouse, "he found the Stone of Victory, but what good were his findings to him when he didn't know what he had found and he let it be taken from him?"
"But if he hadn't to find it he couldn't have slain the Giant and taken the cup out of the iron cupboard—that much good the Stone of Victory did him," said the Cock-grouse.
"I'm sorry to think that that's all he got from the Stone of Victory," said the Hen-grouse.
"Well, that's all he got from it, and be quiet now till I tell you the rest of the story," said the Cock-grouse.
He went into the courtyard of the Grey Castle and he found there a great eagle that was chained
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