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But I saw afterwards that what he had been 

 doing was to anchor himself for his future work ; 

 since subsequently, when he was making his new 

 coat, he was so attached to the larger stones that 

 I could pull him around by moving any of the 

 half-dozen around him. They seemed to be all 

 connected by some thread-like substance, and I 

 thought it a very sensible idea of Sandy's, for it 

 would have been awkward work dress-making, I 

 suppose, without a certainty that he could keep 

 in a fixed place. 



Being anchored, Sandy worked. It lacked a 

 few minutes of seven hours after this when Sandy 

 slipped down his body the first section of his new 

 dress. He had seemingly made this thin section 

 round about his body near his head, and then he 

 caught hold of a little stone that I had pushed 

 near him, and with mighty squirmings slipped the 

 section down toward the other end of his body. 

 This was probably the " trying-on " part of the 

 dressmaking. The garment was to be a " glove- 

 fit," without wrinkles, hence Sandy's feats in wrig- 

 gling. 



In making the section he seemed to pick up 

 the sand-grains and manipulate them ; but Sandy 

 need not have been afraid of my stealing his trade, 

 for though the operation went on under my eyes, 

 I could not tell at all how it was done. The first 

 section covered nearly half his body, exclusive of 

 his head. He manipulated a while longer, and 



