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Updated: May 18, 2025
'I am ready, said he. 'But hark! there's little work for us there, I fancy. Those be lads of Cologne, no grunters of the wild. 'Tis the White Rose Club. Always too late for service. Voices singing a hunting glee, popular in that age, swelled up the clear morning air; and gradually the words became distinct.
At this time we were just opposite the small vale which lay between the Valley of the Wreck and Spouting Cliff. "I say, Peterkin," cried Jack in a hoarse whisper. "Well, what is't?" "Stay a bit, man. These grunters are just up there on the hillside.
Sometimes they went out for half a mile over the mud flats, but always a few minutes before the tide came rushing in they turned and hurried to the shore. Their instincts warned them that if they stayed any longer they would be drowned. Mr. Wood had a number of pigs, and after a while Daddy was put in with them, and a fine time he had of it making friends with the other little grunters.
So lifelike did these grunters look, that Ben almost seemed to hear them squeak. "Well, this is very strange!" said Ben to himself. When the people of the house came to see him, Benjamin told them of the marvellous circumstance which had occurred. But they would not believe him. "Benjamin, thou art surely out of thy senses!" cried they.
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