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Only after weeks of vain effort did the right idea occur to somebodynamely, to utilise the force of gravity. 🔊

But for the first time it occurred to him that he was eleven years old and that perhaps his great muscles were not quite what they had once been. 🔊

About this time there occurred a strange incident which hardly anyone was able to understand. 🔊

Unfortunate incidents had occurred, mistaken ideas had been current. It had been felt that the existence of a farm owned and operated by pigs was somehow abnormal and was liable to have an unsettling effect in the neighbourhood. 🔊

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