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Type your answer here... In sailing ship days of old, To stop the lookout falling asleep high up in the crow's nest, stones were thrown up to hit the crows nest to keep the lookout awake and therefore watchful. As supply of stones carried onboard ship for this reason, and replensished at each landfall ?

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