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As I approached he put theether

they lifted up a great stone in the pathhich covered thevery attractive and yet repellent about a well, at

least to me I alant to look down it and listen to the peculiar

echoing noise, and the whispers that seereen wet

sides

It was so here, and while theto Mr Solomon I went

down on one knee and peered into the well, to see, far down, a

glistening round of what looked like a mirror with my face in it, but in

a blurred indistinct way, for there was afrom the sides, and as I bent lower the air seemed cold and

dank, while above it was sunny and warh, and recalling the

way in which I had been thrust into the pond I did not care to risk a

kick frohed, or fro a long ladder, they asked hi that the as being

opened they, to use their oords, ca the path and went off again to his work,