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The poor creature looked wonderingly round at the night, at the lantern, at their two figures, as if he could not believe that at that hour, when every living thing was intended to be in shelter and at rest, he was called upon to go out and labour. They put a stock of candle-ends into the lantern, hung the latter to the off-side of the load, and directed the horse onward, walking at his shoulder at first during the uphill parts of the way, in order not to overload an animal of so little vigour. To cheer themselves as well as they could, they made an artificial morning with the lantern, some bread and butter, and their own conversation, the real morning being far from come. Abraham, as he more fully awoke (for he had moved in a sort of trance so far), began to talk of the strange shapes assumed by the various dark objects against the sky; of this tree that looked like a raging tiger springing from a lair; of that which resembled a giant's head. 去书内
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    The poor boy Abraham looks confused at being sent out to work at night when all creatures should rest. They prepare the lantern with candle-ends, hang it on the load, and walk beside the weak horse especially uphill to ease its burden. To keep their spirits up, they use the lantern, bread and butter, and conversation to create a makeshift morning while waiting for dawn. As Abraham fully wakes from his trance, he starts talking about the weird shapes of dark objects against the sky, like a tiger-shaped tree and a giant’s head.

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