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Yes, I meant 'cobbled.' It's close enough in sound to suggest gobbled, but manages to also suggest the cobbling of a road (their path) with stones, thus rendering it rough and unfamiliar; the clumsy gathering together of their way home until it is no longer; the medieval idea of stones (birds) being used to drive someone away- and a few other things. Gobbled would have been gobbled, and that would have been that. Besides, using gobbled in close proximity to the image of birds would have been too Thanksgiving-ish for comfort.
by Norm on Jul. 17 2007