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The winning boat, long preceded by its horse, crawled un-der the bridge & passed northwards to the sea, laden with crates of earth-enware. And then the loser, with the little girl's father & mother & her broth-ers & sisters, & her kitchen, drawing-room, & bedroom, & h e r s m o k i n g

c h i m n e y & h e r memories & all that was hers, in the stern of it, slid be-neath the boys' down-turned faces w h i l e t h e w h i p cracked away be-yond the bridge. They could see, be-tween the whitened tarpaulins, that the deep belly of the crat was filled with clay."Where does t h a t t h e r e c l a y come from?" asked E d w i n . F o r n o t

merely was he hon-estly struck by a sudden new curiosi-ty, but it was meet for him to behave like a man now, & to ask manly ques-t i o n s ." R u n co r n ," said the Sunday scornfully. "Can't you see it painted a l l o v e r t h e boat?""Why do they bring clay all the w a y f r o m

R u n co r n ? " " T h e y don't bring it from R u n c o r n . T h e y bring it from Corn-w a l l . I t c o m e s round by sea-see?" He laughed."Who told you?" Edwin r o u g h l y d e m a n d e d ."A n y-body knows that!" said the Sunday grandly, but always maintaining his gay smile."Seems devil-ish funny to me," Edwin murmured, ate r r e f l e c t i o n ,

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"that they should bring clay all that roundabout way just to make crocks o f i t h e re . W h y should they choose just this place to make crocks in? I al-w a y s understood-""Oh! Come on!" the Sun-day cut him short. "It's blessed well o n e o ' c l o c k & ater!"

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Two birds flying high, A Chinese ves-sel, sailing by. A bridge with three men, sometimes four, A willow tree, hanging o'er. A Chi-nese temple, there it stands, Built upon the river sands. An apple tree, with ap-ples on, A crooked fence to end my song.

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