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No more than three shakes of a lamb's tail when you come to look at it right." "But where do you get all the coal?" was Marmaduke's next question. "I should think you'd use it all up quick, you put on such big shovelsful." "See there," the Giant said, for answer pointing in at the sides of the pit. Little tunnels ran from the sides into the dark Earth.
Mellen was at work still, more furiously than ever, throwing up great shovelsful of earth and dashing them down with frantic haste. "Is he there yet?" called Elsie. "Yes, yes! How he works dig dig dig!" She stopped suddenly: the silence raised wilder horror in Elsie's mind. "Has he found it?" "Not yet. He is standing still now, he is throwing the earth back."
Native soaks dug out with sticks and wooden "coolimans" small troughs used as spades or as a means of carrying seeds, water, or game are by no means uncommon, and, when holding water, are easily made more serviceable by throwing out a few shovelsful of sticks, stones, and sand, with which they are generally choked.
With what eager anxiety the shovelsful are watched, when the expected "bottom" is nearly reached, by man and beast alike, who, utterly weary and absolutely parched, know that they are soon to learn their fate.
But when he reached the place, there they were down so deep as to be out of sight from the new road. They had dug a path all around the edge of the cellar, close to the line his papa had marked out. The path was four feet from the ground which was as deep as it was to go. Now they did not try to throw out their shovelsful upon the bank, they threw them on the great pile in the centre.
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