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littleto the flame, and it burned up so that we

could examine our position, and we soon found that our prison was

reduced to about half its size

"It's of no use to try and dig our way out, Shock," I said despairingly,

as I extinguished the candle "We shall only bring down more sand and

cover ourselves in"

"Like Old Browns "I say, should

we corily "Don't you understand that we

are buried alive"

"Course I do," he said "Well, what on it?"

"What of it?" I said in agony, as the perspiration stood uponus out like we do the taters out of a

cla in a wax I wish I'd so breath, and sat down as far froet, and listened to the rustling trickling noise made by the

sand every now and then, asin, and I

knew hly now that our only course was to wait till Ike

," I thought, for we must have been in here two

or three hours