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down and buried e gasps and cries, shaking hiround

"I sed lots o' sand, I think, and it come down on my back horrid

You try now"

I hesitated, but felt that I must not be cowardly if I wished for us to

escape; and so I asked hiht I sahere to work, and also that,

the place see up with the sand, and that we had not

half so ht, and with a desperate haste I went down on an to tear at and throw the sand behindtowards our

extrication, for as fast as I drew the sand away froan to think that I wassound, some hard bits of

adhesive sand fell upon my head, and I instinctively started back, as

there was a rush that came over my knees, and I knew that if I had

re, I should have been buried

"What, did you get it?" cried Shock, laughing

I was so startled that I did not answer

"Oh! he's buried!" cried Shock in a wild tone; and he threw hian to tear at the sand "Mars Grant, Mars Grant," he cried

excitedly "Don't leave me here alone"