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He remembered long afternoons spent with other boys in scrounging round dustbins and rubbish heaps , picking out the ribs of cabbage leaves , potato peelings , sometimes even scraps of stale breadcrust from which they carefully scraped away the cinders ; and also in waiting for the passing of trucks which travelled over a certain route and were known to carry cattle feed , and which , when they jolted over the bad patches in the road , sometimes spilt a few fragments of oil-cake . gold
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