Answer: “He looked round, but could see nothing but a crow winging its solitary flight across the mountain“
“ when he heard the same cry ring through the still evening air: “Rip Van Winkle! Rip Van Winkle!””
“ and perceived a strange figure slowly toiling up the rocks, and bending under the weight of something he carried on his back”
Explanation: all of these sentences give you a brief description of where and when this is happening.
In England, a bullocks is a castrated male bovine.
He was stabbed in the eye with a wooden stake and was drunk - odysseus said to him his name was nobody so polyphemus shouted 'Nobody is killing me!'
or effectively "nobody is killing me by force or treachery" like you said
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I think the 3rd one is the answer
