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... Purelko - and they are still asleep in the sandpit behind the fire , curled together like a couple of puppies . Mother called the pit murlg , the shelter , though it is nothing but a sheet of corrugated iron stuck sideways into the ...
... Purelko - and they are still asleep in the sandpit behind the fire , curled together like a couple of puppies . Mother called the pit murlg , the shelter , though it is nothing but a sheet of corrugated iron stuck sideways into the ...
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Stories B. Wongar. One of the children mumbles something ; it is Purelko , my brother . He struggles to move his hand through the air to ... tell me , perhaps , that he knows about Mother too . The boy , the young- est , is often awake ...
Stories B. Wongar. One of the children mumbles something ; it is Purelko , my brother . He struggles to move his hand through the air to ... tell me , perhaps , that he knows about Mother too . The boy , the young- est , is often awake ...
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... Purelko and everyone else who needs help . I wish Nati would hurry them up ; without Mother I may not be able to feed the poor boy . I should climb up on that dead tree and look out . I did it a season ago and went up to the top ...
... Purelko and everyone else who needs help . I wish Nati would hurry them up ; without Mother I may not be able to feed the poor boy . I should climb up on that dead tree and look out . I did it a season ago and went up to the top ...
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