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why do they call 'em Gobblers?" Lyra asked.
'"Cause they eat 'em," said the first gyptian boy. "Someone told us in Northampton. They been up there and all. This girl in Northampton, her brother was took, and she said the men as took him told her they was going to eat him. Everyone knowsthat Billy had been seen for certain not less than two hours previously.
"So," she said, "sometime in the last two hours there must've been Gobblers here...."
They all looked around, shivering in spite of the warm sun, the crowded wharf, the familiar smells of tar and horses and smokeleaf. The trouble was that because no one knew what that. They gobble 'em up."A gyptian girl standing nearby began to cry loudly."That's Billy's cousin," said Charlie.Lyra said, "Who saw Billy last?""Me," said half a dozen voices. "I seen him holding JohnnyFiorelli's old horse-I seen him by the toffee-apple seller-I seen him swinging on the crane-"When Lyra had sorted it out, she gathered
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