kibble-shaft

Updated: May 17, 2025

Up they went, ladder after ladder, squeezing through narrow places, rubbing against wet rocks and beams, scraping against the boarding of the kibble-shaft, and being scraped by the pump-rods until both of them were as wet and red and dirty as any miner below.

R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines