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once with the best coarse white--we can do it in half an hour or so--

then you two can go rabbiting or bird-nesting, or what you like, while I

have a pipe and a sleep in the sand till it's tio"

"Where's a shovel?" I cried; and Shock jumped into the cart for

another

"Steady, lads, steady," said Ike; "plenty of time Only best coarse

white, you know Wait till I've propped the sharps and got her so as

she can't tilt uppards That's your sort She's all right now We

don't want no more berryin's, Mars Grant, do we? Now, then, only the

best white, mind Load away"

He set the example, just where the beautiful white sand seemed to have

trickled, down from the cliff till it fororously ere not long before Ike cried: "Woa!"

"But it isn't half full," I cried

"No, my lad If it was," said Ike, "our horse couldn't pull it That

stuff's twice as heavy as stones There, stick in your shovels, and now

be off Don't go far You ought with that dog to find us a rabbit for

dinner"