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A window was broken and the door hung crookedly. Except for a few rows of withered potatoes, the garden was occupied by weeds. Three or four shellducks, hatched from wild birds' eggs, paddled about the creek. "Shanks' dabbin; his father squatted here," Jim remarked. "I reckon I'm going to have trouble with the fellow." He opened the broken gate and two men came out.
Shanks looked at his son and remarked with dull surprise: "He's gan t' dyke marsh!" The other said nothing and Shanks turned to Jim. "If you were letten dry out marsh, t' wild geese and ducks wad gan." "It's possible. We'll raise good grass and corn instead. Dairy cows are worth more than shellducks." "But you'll niver be letten," Shanks replied doggedly. "Shucks!" said Jim. "The marsh is mine.
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