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worked away, not only at this bed, but at the rocks above and below 

 It ; and some of the best bones we got from the clay, a fet^- inches 

 above the pebbles. It was a treat to see Keeping get the bones and 

 teeth out of the hard stuff— you would think all was goino- to 

 smithereens when out would come a perfect vertebra, procelses^and 

 all; or if part of a long bone did jump out first he would still oq on 

 and pick up the bit afterwards, in a trice, out of a heap of rulibish 

 in which It seemed hopeless to search. It was hot work too, and we 

 had several loads wheeled under an oak, ^hich luckily stood in the 

 field ; these soon disappeared, and more were brought ; so in time we 

 got through many cubic yards of stuff. 



