The dirt from this underground channel he cast into a deep old unused well, not far distant.

Once under the platform, he kept on digging, making the hole larger by far.

Numerous rocks abounded in the neighborhood, and these he used to wall up his underground room, so that it would hold water.

Just in the middle of the school-room platform he cut, from beneath, a square hole, taking in the spot where the teacher invariably stood when addressing the school.

He cut the boards until they lacked but a very little, indeed, of being cut through.