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Updated: May 28, 2025
Miguel remains on the beach; but Mateo, bearing the end of the line, fights his way out, swimming and wading by turns, to the further sandbar, where the water is shallow enough to stand in, if you know how to jump when the breaker comes. But Feliu, nearing the flooded shell-bank, watches the white flashings, knows when the time comes to keep flat and take a long, long breath.
Sabre-Tooth, long-fanged and long-haired, was the chiefest peril to us of the squatting place, who crouched through the nights over our fires and by day increased the growing shell-bank beneath us by the clams we dug and devoured from the salt mud-flats beside us.
The hedges and clothes-lines were cleared of their burden, and with a whisper of "Shall we go down to the cove the tide is nearly full," the girls slipped each a cotton gown and a towel apiece into Patsy's little reticule and made off to the bathing cove, a well-hidden nook of sand, half cavern, half high shell-bank, which bygone tides had excavated in the huge flank of the Black Head.
Mavis and Merle and Cousin Nora, bearing baskets in which to place shells, had a pleasant walk along the cliffs, and descended the path to the trysting-place. They found Bevis waiting for them in the cove. He had moored The Kittiwake to a buoy, and now led the way over the sands to a sort of little peninsula that jutted out into the sea. Here he had beached his dinghy. "This is the shell-bank.
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