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wondering hoas that Juno hadn't found you before, and 'sposed the

sand didn't hold the scent, or else the rabbits up above 'tracted her

away

"`I can see no other way,' said the ganger at last `You et on the top, and see how much more is loose

Take care You,' he said to a tall, thin lad of sixteen--`you stand

there; and as soon as you see any sand cruain, and at the end of a minute the lad shouted,

and we had to scuttle off, or we should have been buried, and things

looked worse than ever We'd been digging and shovelling back the

sloping bank, but it grew instead of getting less, and this et er `Come up here, Ike,' he

says; and I shouldered ood bit round 'fore I

could climb up to hie, a some furze