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# A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2 · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/159/101/) — A wise man in the district advised them to open the grave and see if the buried man was not lying sucking his thumb, for if so he must be a sailor, and the sea would not rest until it had got him back.
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/159/102/) — The grave was opened, and he really was found with his thumb in his mouth.
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/159/103/) — So they laid him upon a cart, and harnessed two oxen to it; and the oxen ran off with the sailor over heath and moor to the ocean, as if they had been stung by an adder.
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/159/104/) — Then the sand ceased to fly inland, but the hills that had been piled up still remained.

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