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"Heto turn away

when I caught sight of so in the shadow beneath the little

old four-paned

It was so I had never seen before except in pictures; and I was

so interested that I stepped in and was about to pick up the object, but

Shock snatched it away

"Where did you get it?" I said eagerly

He did not answer for a few , isn't it?" I said "Here, let me look" He slowly

laid the little prickly animal down on the earthen floor and pushed it

towards me--a concession of civility that onderful for Shock; and I

eagerly exaood

deal in the efforts to get a good look at the little black-faced ani to do with it?" I said

Shock looked up atway, as he beat out his

clay into a broad sheet; and then, as if about toball, laid it on the clay, and covered it

up, rolling it over and over till there was nothing visible but a clay

ball