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I was full of is of horror, and I fancied the fearful splash,

the darkness, the rising to the surface, and then the poor wretch--

ers in between the slippery

bricks, and getting no hold, and then--"There!--what did I tell you?"

said Mr Solorowled Ike

"Oh! that's nothing," said the plumber "I've been doorse wells

than that"

I was puzzled, for it seemed to me that the candle hter and brighter as it reached the

darkness, and then it burned rew smaller, and then all at

once it turned blue and went out

He drew it up, lit it again, and lowered it once o down a little lower before it went out

He drew it up again, relit it, and once more sent it down; and this time

it went as far as the cylinder of the pump--which was fixed, I saw, on a

sort of scaffold or framehere the foot of the ladder rested

I was able to see all this before the light went out and was drawn up

again

"All right in a few minutes," said the plumber; and he unfastened the

candle, lowered down his basket of tools by e on a bit of a platform close by the works of the pu to me to see hon the pump was