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Updated: May 9, 2025
It's dreadful stuff to dig amongst slides in on you as soon as you start to dig, and levels up. They'll have to brattice as they work. It'll be a big job." All that day Kettle watched the sea with an anxious eye. In the two boats men ground at the air-pumps under the aching sunlight.
"That's a good idea, too!" The boys came at length to a brattice, which is a screen, of either wood or heavy cloth, set up in a passage to divert the current of air to a bench where workmen are engaged, and dodged down behind it, after turning off their lights, of course, "Now, come on with your old light," whispered Tommy.
The hole made was quickly enlarged, and the rescuers scrambled through. But still fall after fall on the further side delayed their progress, and the work of repairing the blown-out stoppings by such wood brattice as could be got at, was long and tedious. The rescuers toiled and sweated, pausing every now and then to draw upon the food and drink sent up from behind; and the hours flew unheeded.
"There is a little pool by the brattice. I put my cap in as we got there, and dashed it over you. I'll go again." George heard the long limbs drag themselves painfully along. Then he lost count again of time, and all impressions on the ear, till he was roused by the water at his lips and a hand dashing some on his brow. He drank greedily. "Thanks! Put it by me there; that's safe.
To judge by the time I've been sitting since I got you here it's night long ago." "Since you got me here?" repeated George, with feeble interrogation. "When I came to I was lying with my face in a dampish sort of hollow, and I suppose the afterdamp had lifted a bit, for I could raise my head. I felt you close by. Then I dragged myself on a bit, till I felt some brattice.
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