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1. Two men were making a wall by the road-side, and Harry and Dora
stopped to look at them.

2. Another man was going away with a horse and cart. The cart was empty,
but it had been full of red bricks. The men were putting these bricks on
the wall and making them fast with mortar.

3. Dora liked the sound which the trowel made when it struck against the
wall. Harry picked up one of the bricks and looked at it, and then Dora
must look at one too.

4. They found that the bricks were light and easy to lift. They also
saw that they were all of the same size and shape, as if they had been
made, and not dug out of the ground.

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5. They did not like to ask the men about them, and so they put the
bricks down, and set off on their way home.