'That's never blasting,' says one.

'The Lord have mercy on us,' cries the other; 'it's the river come in at last!' For, as I say, the risk was quite well known, though it was considered small, and made a frequent jest of.

Nothing that ever I heard was equal to that noise; the waves in Gethin caverns here, during storm, are a whisper to it; the whole pit seemed to be roaring in upon us.

We all ran up the gallery, which, fortunately for us, had a great slope, and crouched down at the end of it.

We heard the water pouring in and filling all the workings beneath us, and then pouring in and filling ours.