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THE DIGGING-MEN STORY
Once upon a time there was a little boy who was almost five years old. And his mother used to let him wander about the garden and in the road near the house, for there weren't many horses going by, and the men who drove the horses that did go by knew the little boy and they were careful.
So this boy wandered about and played happily by himself.
He had his cat and his cart and his shovel and his hoe, and he always wore his overalls. And wherever he went his cat went too.
One morning he saw some men come with a big cart and two horses, and they stopped in a field near his house where there were some queer boards nailed on sticks that were stuck in the ground; and the boards turned corners, and there were strings across from one board to another.
And the men got out of the big cart and unhitched the horses from the cart, and the little boy thought he had better go there and see what they were going to do.