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all sorts of weird stuff. Then I caught sight

            of the gold box.


               But Jake was right in the rubbish now. He

            stepped clumsily into a wheel-less pram


            and reached down. Suddenly there was a

            landslide. The pram tipped backwards,


            Jake tipped forwards and the box

            disappeared downwards.


               “What did you do that for? I nearly had it!”

               “Hold on!” Jake had got his balance back.


            He was crouching forward and looking

            down into the debris.

               “Can you see it?” I asked.


               “No!”

               Gripping the side of the skip with one


            hand I reached out towards the gap where




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