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you had to wade through a shallow stream of
water to reach this ridge; so the children used
to take off their shoes and stockings, and paddle
across this strip of water, and then they would
fill their baskets with the delicate shells—pink
and white—and then come back to the shore for
their shoes and stockings.

There were some very high cliffs about a mile
further along the shore. There was only one
place where you could climb up them, and there
some rough steps had been cut out; but it was
a very dangerous place, and the children had
never been there without Mr. Summers. The
cliffs and rocks ran out some little distance into
the sea, and made quite a little bay. When the
tide was low it was easy enough to get round,
but when the tide was high it was impossible
to pass. But unless the weather was rough,
there was always, even at hich tide, a little
strip of dry beach close up by the cliffs.

But to return to the children. After tea, the