RUPERT AND BILLY GOAT

“Look!” Rupert gasps. “I think they match The footprints in that other patch!”

Rupert falls in with Billy’s idea. “Let’s find another way to go down,” he suggests, “so that we don’t use the same bit of cliff.” As they move across the hilltop they see more patches of snow and Rupert points. “Look, those are very like the footprints we saw before. Someone else has been here.” “Yes, someone has,” says Billy, as they round a bush. “Do you see what that is sticking up, near the cliff edge?”

They find a stake wedged in a slit, A double rope runs down from it.