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Updated: May 28, 2025
I shall be sucked down like a cork in a sink-hole, but tell me to do it order me and make me, and I'll try; but I daren't go without I was made." "Light another piece of oakum, Tom," I said hoarsely. "Perhaps the water on the sand is shallow and we might walk along to the other end, and then try to swim together: it would not be half so far. But stay hold my hand while I step down and try."
Her thoughts went wandering back over the past three weeks over the whole gradual unveiling of Anderson's personality. She recalled her first impressions of him the day of the "sink-hole."
She and her brother had arrived, he understood, in the early hours at Winnipeg, after the agitations and perils of the sink-hole. Philip had gone at once to bed and to slumber. Lady Merton would soon, it seemed, be ready for anything that Winnipeg might have to show her. The new-comer had time, however, to realise and enjoy a pleasant expectancy before she appeared.
"The sink-hole! Shall I be sucked down?" was the thought that flashed across the lad's brain, like a lurid light, as he went under; then he struck out vigorously for the side, and as he rose to the surface saw that he was being drawn toward the hole where it gaped horribly, and closed, and gaped again, a few yards away.
We found one white man dead at the edge of the sink-hole, whom they did not remove for fear of our fire, and scalped him, placing our dead brave upon him, thinking we could not leave him in a better situation than on the prostrate form of a fallen foe. We had now effected our purpose and concluded to go back by land, thinking it unsafe to use our canoes.
He had constructed in 1893, at 113, a sample piece of such road, covering at his own expense an ancient sink-hole in the highway, through which during two months in every year for a century and a half Quaker Hill had wallowed; and he desired with this object-lesson to convince the town, to win the support of at least his neighbors, to the proposal to transform the highways into good roads.
"Got on as well as you did," snarled the middy. "Ugh! It was horrid. Just as if, when I felt that I could hold my breath no longer, I was suddenly seized and sucked into a great sink-hole, only the water was running up instead of down." "Yes, that's just how I felt," said Aleck. "You couldn't have felt so bad as I did," said the lad, irritably and speaking in the most inconsistent way.
The only phenomenon worthy the attention of any inquiring mind, in this whole record, I will now describe. As we drove along the side of a hill, and at least two hundred feet above the water, the road suddenly diverged and took a circuit higher up. The driver said that was to avoid a sink-hole in the old road, a great curiosity, which it was worth while to examine.
Ben pressed on to the still-house at the best speed he could make, and such of the moonshiners as were half sober came out with ropes and a barrel, which they lowered into the cavity. Thad managed to crawl into the barrel, and, after several ineffectual attempts, he was drawn up through the sink-hole. There was no formal reconciliation between the two boys.
The man courted peril. The bright face of danger must have been beautiful and alluring to him. I started after him caught up with him and stayed beside him. I could not have walked behind him over that strip of treacherous sink-hole. If I could have done so the whole adventure would have been meaningless to me. Nevertheless I was frightened.
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