"This sky above us seems so high up, I feel as if I could take wing and fly!" "I say! keep hold of her!" cried Jack Ryan.

"Our little Nell is too good to lose.

I feel just as you describe though, myself, when I have not left the pit for a long time." "It is when we no longer experience the oppressive effect of the vaulted rocky roof above Coal Town," said James Starr, "that the spacious firmament appears to us like a profound abyss into which we have, as it were, a desire to plunge.

Is that what you feel, Nell ?" "Yes, Mr.Starr, it is exactly like that," said Nell.

"It makes me feel giddy." "Ah! you will soon get over that, Nell," said Harry.