Besides, he had promised to ask for none.

And further, a shout from the road, accompanied by the roaring of a motor truck, announced the fact that Harry was making his return.
Five men were with him, to help him carry in ropes, heavy pulleys, weights and a large metal shaft bucket, then to move out the smaller of the pumps and trundle away with them, leaving the larger one and the larger engine for a single load.

At last Harry turned to his paraphernalia and rolled up his sleeves.
"'Ere 's where we work!" he announced.

"It's us for a pulley and bucket arrangement until we can get the 'oist to working and the skip to running.

'Elp me 'eave a few timbers." It was the beginning of a three-days' job, the building of a heavy staging over the top of the shaft, the affixing of the great pulley and then the attachment of the bucket at one end, and the skip, loaded with pig iron, on the other.