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Updated: June 1, 2025
The bellows are formed of two inflated skins, like a double "bagpipe." Each foot of the "bellows-blower" is strapped to one skin, the pipes of the bellows being fixed in the air-hole of the blast.
"After an hour passed in rummaging every corner of the place, the assailants were going away in despair, convinced that their prey had escaped them; when a soldier, who was stooping down to look through the air-hole of a cellar, fell, shot through the body. "The Vardarelli were discovered; but still it was no easy matter to get at them.
"Ventre de biche! so then they took another way?" "Yes, dear M. Chicot, they are getting out through the cellar." "How does that run?" "From the crypt to the Porte St. Jacques." "You lie; I should have seen them repass before this cell." "No, dear M. Chicot; they thought they had not time for that, so they are creeping out through the air-hole." "What hole?"
Suddenly the little brother called out, "Oh, what a funny little hole! It bubbles!" "Hole? Where?" said Hans. "Here in the bank," said the little brother; "water's in it." "What!" said Hans, and he slid down as fast as he could to where his brother was playing. There was the tiniest little hole in the bank. Just an air-hole. A drop of water bubbled slowly through.
As the machine came back to an even keel, and he knew that he was now wholly in the invisible stream, he readjusted the wing-tips, rapidly away from him during the several moments of his discomfiture. The pigeon drove straight on for the Alameda County shore, and it was near this shore that Winn had another experience. He fell into an air-hole.
Groping into one of the casks, I found some straw, and spreading it on a piece of plank, I prepared to pass the night sitting with my back to the driest piece of wall I could find, which happened to be immediately under the air-hole a fortunate circumstance, as the closeness was often stifling.
It was now fairly well lighted by the ruddy glare that came through the air-hole. The place had formerly been a wine cellar, but every cask and barrel was now gone. The support on which they had rested, however, remained behind. This was a massive oak beam which had served to keep the wine casks from the damp earthen floor of the cellar.
The words hadn't left his lips when he saw, a few yards in front of them, a faint cloud of steam rising up from the ice that dim danger-signal that flies above an air-hole. The Colonel, never noticing, was heading straight for the ghastly trap. "God, Colonel! Blow-hole!" gasped the Boy. The Colonel simply rolled off the pack turning over and over on the ice, but keeping hold of the rope.
Others died later of consumption. And one who had gone down never did come up. All survivors had planned to return and drain the lake, yet none had ever gone back. Disaster always smote them. One man fell into an air-hole below Forty Mile; another was killed and eaten by his dogs; a third was crushed by a falling tree. And so the tale ran.
That figure, which one might have supposed to be riveted to the flagstones, appeared to possess neither movement, nor thought, nor breath. Lying, in January, in that thin, linen sack, lying on a granite floor, without fire, in the gloom of a cell whose oblique air-hole allowed only the cold breeze, but never the sun, to enter from without, she did not appear to suffer or even to think.
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