Her will be here in five minutes." With three or four rapid turns of his shovel, which he spun almost as fast as a house-maid spins a mop, he fetched out the plug of earth severing his channel from the deep, reluctant hole.

And then I saw the wisdom of his way of working: for if he had dug downward from the pool itself, the water would have followed him all the way, and even drowned his tool out of its own strokes; whereas now, with a swirl and a curl of ropy mud, away rushed the thick, sluggish, obstinate fluid, and in less than two minutes the hole was almost dry.
The first thing I saw was my golden eagle, lodged about half-way down the slope on a crust of black sludge, from which I caught it up and presented it to Master Withypool, as a small token and record of his kindness; and to this day he carries it upon his Sunday watch chain.
"I always am lucky in finding things," I exclaimed, while he watched me, and the up stream too, whence a babble of water was approaching.

"As sure as I live I have found it!" "No doubt about your living, miss.

And the Captain were always lively.
But what have your bright eyes hit upon?
I see nort for the life of me." "Look there," I cried, "at the very bottom of it--almost under the water.

Here, where I put my spud--a bright blue line! Oh, can I go down, or is it quicksand ?" "No quicksand in our little river, miss.