"But though I can get the stones out, I can't get the water out.

And I've no notion of diving where there's pretty sure to be nothing to dive for.

Besides, a body can't dive in a stone pipe like this.

I should want weights to sink me, and I mightn't get them off in time.

I want my breakfast dreadful, Willie." So saying, he scrambled up the side of the well, and the last of him that appeared, his boots, namely, bore testimony enough to his having reached the water.