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"Here now, Trader; aisy, aisy! Quicksands I've seen along the sayshore, / and up to me half-ways I've been in wan, wid a double-and-twist in the / rope to pull me out; but a suckin' sand in the open plain -- aw, Trader, / aw! the like o' that niver a bit saw I."
So said Macavoy the giant, when the thing was talked of in his presence.