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Gobblers," she said. "En't you heard of the Gobblers?"
It was news to the other boys as well, and apart from a few coarse comments they listened closely to what she told them.
"Gobblers," Oxford now to get kids from us. It must've been them what got Jessie."
"There was a kid lost over Cowley way," said one of the other boys. "I remember now. My auntie, she was there yesterday, 'cause she sells fish and chips out a van, and she heard about it....Some little boy, that's it...I dunno about the Gobblers, though. They en't real, Gobblers. Just a story."
"They are!" Lyra said. "The gyptians seen 'em. They reckon they eat the kids they catch, and..."
She stopped in midsentence, because something had suddenly come into her mindsaid Lyra's acquaintance, whose name was Dick. "It's stupid. These gyptians, they pick up all kinds of stupid ideas.""They said there was Gobblers in Banbury a couple of weeks ago," Lyra insisted, "and there was five kids taken. They probably come to