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CHAPTER X
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They had constant confidences about tackle and guns and snares.

They were all day together on the hills.

The works pleased the boy better than his father's studio.

He trotted away with his grandfather gladly to them.
The fires and molten metal, the wheels and hammers and tumult, were all enchantments to him.

He never feared to leap into a collier's basket and swing down the deep, black shaft.


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