Well, this must have cut itself a way along.

It's quite a big, sloping passage, and it must go down to the shore.

Can't you see now ?" "I don't know.

Do you mean that hole leads down to the shore ?" "Yes, or into some cavern like the great holes where the stream runs out into the sea." "Then it would be a way down into the Black Scraw ?" cried Mike excitedly.
"Of course it would.

Why, Mikey, we've found out what we were looking for!" "You mean you tumbled upon it," said Mike, laughing.
"Tumbled into it," cried Vince, whose face was flushed with eagerness.
"Come on down, and let's have a look if I'm not right." "What, down there ?" "Yes, of course." "But isn't it dark ?" "Black enough lower down; but you can see the top part, because the light shines through all these brambles and thorns." "But hadn't we better wait till I've got a lanthorn and the rope ?" "Why, of course, before we try to explore it; but we might go and look a little way.