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Next day, according to the programme made out for my entertainment, we did some seven hours\u2019 partridge-shooting on the moors; and the day next following I was to go down Carshalton shaft before breakfast, and after breakfast ride over to a place some fifteen miles distant called Picts\u2019 Camp, there to see a stone circle and the ruins of a prehistoric fort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unused to field sports, I slept heavily after those seven hours with the guns, and was slow to wake when Wolstenholme\u2019s valet came next morning to my bedside with the waterproof suit in which I was to effect my descent into Hades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Mr Wolstenholme says, sir, that you had better not take your bath till you come back,\u2019 said this gentlemanly vassal, disposing the ungainly garments across the back of a chair as artistically as if he were laying out my best evening suit. \u2018And you will be pleased to dress warmly underneath the waterproofs, for it is very chilly in the mine.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I surveyed the garments with reluctance. The morning was frosty, and the prospect of being lowered into the bowels of the earth, cold, tasting, and unwashed, was anything but attractive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Should I send word that I would rather not go? I hesitated; but while I was hesitating, the gentlemanly valet vanished, and my opportunity was lost. Grumbling and shivering, I got up, donned the cold and shiny suit, and went downstairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A murmur of voices met my ear as I drew near the breakfast-room. Going in, I found some ten or a dozen stalwart colliers grouped near the door, and Wolstenholme, looking somewhat serious, standing with his back to the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Look here, Frazer,\u2019 he said, with a short laugh, \u2018here\u2019s a pleasant piece of news. A fissure has opened in the bed of Blackwater tarn; the lake has disappeared in the night; and the mine is flooded! No Carshalton shaft for you today!\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Seven foot o\u2019 wayter in Jukes\u2019s seam, an\u2019 eight in th\u2019 owd north and south galleries,\u2019 growled a huge red-headed fellow, who seemed to be the spokesman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018An\u2019 it\u2019s the Lord\u2019s own marcy a\u2019 happened o\u2019 noight-time, or we\u2019d be dead men all,\u2019 added another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018That\u2019s true, my man,\u2019 said Wolstenholme, answering the last speaker. \u2018It might have drowned you like rats in a trap; so we may thank our stars it\u2019s no worse. And now, to work with the pumps! Lucky for us that we know what to do, and how to do it.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So saying, he dismissed the men with a good-humoured nod, and an order for unlimited ale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I listened in blank amazement. The tarn vanished! I could not believe it. Wolstenholme assured me, however, that it was by no means a solitary phenomenon. Rivers had been known to disappear before now, in mining districts; and sometimes, instead of merely cracking, the ground would cave in, burying not merely houses, but whole hamlets in one common ruin. The foundations of such houses were, however, generally known to be insecure long enough before the crash came; and these accidents were not therefore often followed by loss of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018And now,\u2019 he said, lightly, \u2018you may doff your fancy costume; for I shall have time this morning for nothing but business. It is not every day that one loses a lake, and has to pump it up again!\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Breakfast over, we went round to the mouth of the pit, and saw the men fixing the pumps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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