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Updated: May 14, 2025
I once went twelve miles in a coop, and it was not pleasant travelling at all." "The hen is a sensible woman," said the doll Bertha. "I don't care for travelling over mountains, just to go up and come down again. No, let us go to the sand-pit in front of the gate, and then take a walk in the cabbage garden." And so they settled it.
At one corner of the lawn, shaded by a flowering dog-wood, was a small sand-pit, and in this a yellow-haired two-year-old boy diligently poured sand through a wire sieve. In a white perambulator lay a pink, brown-haired, baby girl, soundly sleeping, a tiny thumb held comfortably in her mouth.
"`I'm off! I says at last, `and they may foller. Come on, Juno, I says; but the dog wasn't there. "That made me more waxy, and I shouted and whistled, and she come from out of the sand-pit and kept looking back, as if she wanted to know why you two didn't come.
The Lamb's mail-cart was covered with a red-and-blue checked table-cloth, and made an admirable baggage-wagon. The Lamb asleep inside it was not at all in the way. So the banditti set out along the road that led to the sand-pit. "We ought to be near the Sammyadd," said Cyril, "in case we think of anything suddenly."
'In that old sand-pit, he says, 'I had a battle with the devil; and I came off more than conqueror through Him that loved me. And it was the text that did it. As he agonized there in the sand-pit, tormented by a thousand doubts, his mother's text all at once spoke out bravely. It left no room for uncertainty.
When they came to the lane which turned up to the house, they quitted their horses, and with much difficulty he wound among bushes and briars, and along a track through a bed of rushes, over which they spread their cloaks for him to walk on. Having reached a wall at the back of the villa, Phaon advised him to hide himself a while in a sand-pit; when he replied, "I will not go underground alive."
"True for you, Master Tom; but I wasn't laughing at the ravage, but at the idee of your uncle, who creeps about thinking he's very bad when he arn't thinking o' nothing else, going spinning down the hill, and steering hisself right into the old sand-pit." "And I don't see that you have anything to laugh at in that," said Tom stiffly.
He was sobbing now, his face hidden by his wrist and the cuff of his coat, the big tears striking his pea-jacket and bounding off. It had been many years since these springs had yielded a drop not when anybody could see. They must have scalded his rugged cheeks as molten metal scalds a sand-pit. Tod stood amazed. The outburst was a revelation.
He pushed Anthea away very roughly, and he chased Robert with kicks and unpleasant conversation right down the road to the sand-pit, and there, with one last kick, he landed him in a heap of sand. "I'll larn you, you young varmint!" he said, and went off to pick up his loaves and go about his business.
When they came to the lane which turned up to the house, they quitted their horses, and with much difficulty he wound among bushes, and briars, and along a track through a bed of rushes, over which they spread their cloaks for him to walk on. Having reached a wall at the back of the villa, Phaon advised him to hide himself awhile in a sand-pit; when he replied, "I will not go under-ground alive."
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