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He pushed it with some force, and then kicked it with his foot to see if some stone or coal had not caught against it, but the door still remained obstinately closed; he put his shoulder against it, fancying that some heavy weight like the coal-box or water-pitcher might have been placed outside, but all in vain; the thick door did not even stir, and then there flashed upon Julian the bitter truth that he had been screwed in.
Don't you remember that I told you that once before? Oh yes. But I see no coal between them there. No. But there is plenty of coal between them over in Wales; and plenty too between them on the other side of Bristol. What you are looking at there is just the lip of a great coal-box, where the bottom and the lid join.
Grimes, I believe I owe you for shoeing this pony." While Mr. Grimes was making the change, Mr. Parlin added, "How happens it, my friend, that this little animal bears such marks of ill treatment? See how he limps. Look at this gash." "O," said Mr. Grimes, "he lamed himself by kicking out against the coal-box; he's a nervous thing." Mr. Parlin then told the boys' story.
Diggory and "Rats" promptly fell into each other's arms, and all four, coming into violent collision, tumbled down amidst the debris of the overturned coal-box; and after rolling over one another like a lot of young dogs, scrambled to their feet, turned out the gas, and rushed away to complete their packing.
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