I went and looked into it, and saw that it led back of the big face, and I went in to see what was there." "You should never have done that, Ralph," cried his sister.

"There might have been snakes in that place, or precipices, or nobody knows what.
What could you expect to see in the dark ?" "It wasn't so dark as you might think," said he.

"After my eyes got used to the place I could see very well.

But there was nothing to see--just walls on each side.

There was more of the passageway ahead of me, but I began to think of snakes myself, and as I did not have a club or anything to kill them with, I concluded I wouldn't go any farther.