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children lost and drowned in past years, especially 

 this very pathetic one of three little things who went 

 out to pick flowers one afternoon and were lost. 

 They were two sisters, aged eight and nine respec- 

 tively, and their little brother, about six or seven 



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years old. They rambled along the rough heath by 

 Carbis Bay to the Towans, near Lelant, where, climb- 

 ing about among the sand-hills, they lost all sense of 

 direction. There meeting a man who spoke roughly 

 to them and ordered them home they became terrified 

 and ran away to the sea-front, and, climbing down the 



