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"But I felt about with the dog barking, and followed to where she was,

and feeling about, I got hold of you two boys cuddled up together as if

you was asleep, and nearly covered up with sand

"I puts my hands to ot 'ee

like, and then I s'pose it was the sand had got in

"But I knelt down tre all over, for I was afraid you was both

dead, and I can't a-bear touching dead boys I never did touch none,

but I can't a-bear touching of 'e jump up in my throat, as if I'd sed a new

potato, only upside down like, other way on, you know, the tater co you about you was both

war of you both, and I

feels to find out which was you, and soon found that out, because Shock

had such a rough head; and then I says to myself, `Which shall I send up

first?' "I did think o' sending Shock, so as to ht p'raps the top'd fall in with sending the first one