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120 CARAVAN DAYSintention of obscuring the truth I should not havewaited till now to begin. I should have saidboldly that we had been in Argyll.We had camped rather rashly on soft ground,and it had rained all night, so that it was clearthat SIEGLINDA would need a good lift to pull herout. But Sam met us with a blank refusal. Henever made the least endeavour. We had a fulltwo hours of it in heavy rain we : dug out thewheels : we ploughed up the turf in all directions :we brought boards and sticks and levers. Wedid in fact all the various things that we had sooften, with a superior smile, read of other caravannershavingto do in like straits. Herbertworked away with great patience,but once histemper was up nothing would induce Sam tomove. Twice he fell and the harness went inthree different places, and ever we plougheddeeper in. And at last we gave him up.There was a carter passing with a light littlehorse (which Sam could have put in his pocket)and we called them in as reinforcements. Andso Sam was allowed to look on while the faithfulSimon (who had been doggedly doing hisbest),with this little ally by his side, put his back intoit with a sudden heave and brought the van witha run through the gate.

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