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THE SUNDERING FLOOD
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side in that stour yet more of the strong-thieves had fallen.
Now they parted, and Osberne and his Wethermelers went home, and the other East Dalers also, each to his own place. But as to the West Dalers, they fell to and drew away the slain thieves from the field of deed, for that they feared the begrudging of the Dwarfs, and they laid them in earth hard by where they had stood to have that converse with them of the East; and they raised a great howe over them, and it is called Thieves' Howe unto this day. And the tale of the said thieves who were slain by the East Dalers in the shot-stour is three score and ten and seven.
