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They had a smoke and a chat in the shade, and then dug a little in their last hole, not with great hope, but merely because Tom said there were so many cases where people had given up a treasure after getting down within six inches of it, and then somebody else had come along and turned it up with a single thrust of a shovel.

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But if they really were intelligent, why would they use a stick to extract termites from the ground rather than a shovel?

Here it kind of looks like he's looking for a date, but what he's really looking for is for someone to shovel him out when he gets snowed in, because he knows he's not very good at fighting fires when he's covered in four feet of snow.

You can smell the oatmeal raisin cookie that he's about to shovel into his mouth.

Get gangsta with your shovel, okay?

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