be rendered impenetrable to any weight of water; for by filling the
gang
entirely up, their embankment would be buttressed by the sides of the
mountain itself.
As soon as he found that the goblins had again retired, he lighted his
lamp, and proceeded to fill the hole he had made with such stones as
he
could withdraw when he pleased. He then thought it better, as he
might
have occasion to be up a good many nights after this, to go home and
have some sleep.
How pleasant the night-air felt upon the outside of the mountain after
what he had gone through in the inside of it! He hurried up the hill,
without meeting a single goblin on the way, and called and tapped at
the
window until he woke his father, who soon rose and let him in. He told
him the whole story, and, just as he had expected, his father thought it
best to work that lode no farther, but at the same time to pretend
occasionally to be at work there still, in order that the goblins might
have no suspicions. Both father and son then went to bed, and slept
soundly until the morning.
Madhuri Noah
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