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Bobby was awakened by a lamenting voice, or, rather, chorus -- the gulls.
He came on deck to find the sun pushing up from behind the sandspit. Black and white sheldrakes were fishing round the _Sandfly_, and a flock of curlews showed, making away towards the trough of Poole.