But I was determined to find him, so I kept on hallooing and he answering.

I went to the place where the voice appeared to come out of the earth.

I was walking along rather thoughtlessly and carelessly, when one inch more and I would have disappeared also.

Right before me I saw the long dry grass all bending toward a common center, and I knew that it was an old well, and that my comrade had fallen in it.

But how to get him out was the unsolved problem.