Darn - Arnie - I just read something about seeing a whale...I don't know if a crate was involved (there was something 'bout crates & rats), but I have read that a raft comes to take villagers? And the backward 'thing' might just appear that way, 'cos villagers' heads swivel? I should remember where I find this stuff. I am 'gonna look for the whale discussion, now.

Thanks for responding. Letcha' know if I come upon my source of info.
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I don't know what to say about it,
When all you ears have turned away,
But now's the time to look and look again at what you see,
Is that the way it ought to stay?