Climbing Back Up
Polly climbs back up and leaves.
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Quiz ↓Now Polly must climb back up again. Going up is slower than going down. She stops two times to rest.
On a wet step there is a limpet. It sits in a small hole in the stone. The hole has the same shape as its shell. The limpet comes back to this same place every morning.
From the top Polly can see islands in the water. They are made of pink rock. This cliff is white rock. They look very different.
Polly looks down the steps one last time. Then she flies away along the coast.
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