"Here's an adventure," was Shep's comment. "We must be careful, or
we'll bring down that dirt above us and be buried alive."
"We are about buried alive now," said Giant. "I'd give a good bit
to be out of this hole."
Stepping from the brushwood, the boys made their way to the dirt and
rocks beyond. By this time each had a kind of a torch, so the place
was fairly well lighted.
Walking back a distance, they saw where the smoke curled to---through
the shaft down which they had fallen so unceremoniously. But the top
of the shaft was hidden from their view.
"I don't know how we are going to get up that," was Shep's comment,
after looking the ground over. "If we try it we may bring all
the dirt and rocks down on our heads."
"Just my idea of it," answered Snap. "Let us try to find some other
way out."
They walked back and forth in the cave and then, by common consent,
sat down on some flat rocks to consider the situation.
Nobody felt like joking, for all felt the seriousness of the
situation.
"That water must come to the surface somewhere," said Snap.
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