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But the two boys were much more interested in the possibility of there being an active volcano in the neighborhood. The volcanic ash which covered the leaves and grass like road-dust assured them all that some huge "blow-hole" of the earth was near. "I wasn't looking for no such things as volcanoes," said Andy Sudds, seriously, "when I shipped for this voyage.
It seemed to have the proportions of a whale, and as the sloop sailed along its side to the part where the head would be, there was a nostril, even, which was a blow-hole through a ledge of rock where every wave that dashed threw up a shaft of water, lifelike and real.
Frere," said Burgess, "and you shall see the Blow-hole. It is a curious place." "Is it far?" asked Sylvia. "Oh no! We shall go in the train." "The train!" "Yes don't look so astonished. You'll see it to-morrow. Oh, you Hobart Town ladies don't know what we can do here." "What about this Kirkland business?" Frere asked.
"To-morrow," she said, lowering her tear-harshened voice, "you find blow-hole. You give this to Yukon Inua say I send it. He will not hate you any more." She burst into a fresh flood of tears.
They were for the most part the common toys of the country-side, and among them was a whistle made of young ash, after the fashion practised by children, who tap upon the bark to release it from its wood, slip off the bark entire upon its sap, and cut the vent or blow-hole. Old Brooks took it in his hand and a smile went over his visage.
From the recess out of which he peered nothing was visible but a sky of turquoise smiling upon a sea of sapphire. The placidity of Nature was, however, to the hunted convict a new source of alarm. It was a reason why the Blow-hole and its neighbourhood should be thoroughly searched.
'It was no porpoise, said another; 'it was a seal; but it had a long tail! It came out of the seal cave! The other children bore various testimony, but on two points they were unanimous it, whatever 'it' was, had come through the blow-hole deep under the water, and had a long, thin tail a tail so long that they could not see the end of it.
The Colonel at intervals poured small doses of O'Flynn's whisky down the Boy's throat in spite of his unbecoming behaviour, for he was both belligerent and ungrateful, complaining loudly of the ruin of his clothes with only such intermission as the teeth-chattering, swallowing, and rude handling necessitated. "I didn't like bein' in that blow-hole. Blow-hole isn't so s-s-melly as these s-s-kins!
Water was struck suddenly. One day, when the men were boring as usual, a noise came up the pipe like sea waves in a blow-hole of rock, a sort of gurgling roar accompanied by a rush of air. Then a column of water, as thick as a man's leg and as strong as a bar of iron, shot up straight into the air and turned over at the top like a gigantic umbrella.
And not far away was a blow-hole of the most extraordinary which shot its spray a hundred feet into the air, and if you didn't mind getting wet you could sit quite alongside it, so close that you could put your hand into it as it came rocketing out of the hole, and then, if the sun was right, you sat in the midst of rainbows a thing Nance had always longed to do since she clapped her baby hands at her first one.
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