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must give up the great heap, and try it some other
time.

Lucy was unwilling to leave it, and wanted to
go and get some more dry wood ; but it was hard
work to get it, for the heap was in the middle of
the ‘swampy part of the ground, from where the
materials had been taken, and so they had to
bring the dry wood from some little distance, out
of the woods on the higher land around them.
The ground on which the heap stood was not,
however, wet and swampy then. It was dry and
hard; for Robert’s father had dug a drain leading
right through the middle of it down to the brook.

They were, accordingly, obliged to leave the
great heap, though they resolved to come up in
the daytime, when they could get dry wood;
and then, as Robert said, they would keep crowd-
ing dry logs under till they made it burn.