"And don't you know for what purpose they do it?"
"No; I haven't the least idea. Would you like to see them?" he asked,
wishing to have another try after their secret.
"If my thread took me there, I shouldn't much mind; but I don't want
to
see them, and I can't leave my thread. It leads me down into the hole,
and we had better go at once."
"Very well. Shall I go in first?" said Curdie.
"No; better not. You can't feel the thread," she answered, stepping
down
through a narrow break in the floor of the cavern. "Oh!" she cried, "I
am in the water. It is running strong--but it is not deep, and there is
just room to walk. Make haste, Curdie."
He tried, but the hole was too small for him to get in.
"Go on a little bit," he said, shouldering his pickaxe.
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