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"`Look here,' he says; `I was hunting for cracks when I slipped down

here' "I looked, and I saw a narrow crack, 'bout a foot wide, nearly covered

with furze

"`Now, listen,' he says, and he kneeled down and shouted, and, sure

enough, there was a bit of a groan caain,' and he shouted, and there was a sort of

answer

"`They're here,' he says excitedly `Hi! Juno, Juno!' The dog ca up, and we put her to the hole or crack, and she darted into it,

went down snuffling, and caain, and then she didn't co, but she didn't coet back

"`What's to be done?' said the ganger `We can't get down there' "`Dig down,' I says

"`No, no,' says he `If we do we shall smother them' "`That boy, then, you sot to look out--send hier; `and--oh, we have no rope Bring

the reins; they're strong and new' "Five o down if

we'd put the reins round him like a rope, and so we did, and after we'd

torn soled