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their prey moved slowly but steadily away. It was a most terrible
business, and seemed to take hours. But at last, just when Bilbo felt
that he could not lift his hand for a single stroke more, the spiders
suddenly gave it up, and followed them no more, but went back
disappointed to their dark colony.
The dwarves then noticed that they had come to the edge of a ring