He had never been ridden before, but he was ridden that
afternoon, and I guess he hasn't forgotten the lesson. She came
to my place first, told me, and rode away to another neighbor's.
In half an hour there were twenty men there, and soon fifty, and
before morning two hundred.
"There was no way to fish the child out-the only thing was to
dig down beside the small shaft. We could hear him faintly, and
we began to dig. We started a shaft about four feet square. The
sandy soil caved badly, but men with horses running all the way
brought out lumber from Grand Rapids for curbing.
"The child's father came too. He listened a second at the
small shaft, and then went down the other. Two men could work at
the bottom of it. One of the men was relieved every few minutes
by a fresh worker, but the father worked on, and did more than
the others, not-withstanding the changes. All of the time the
mother sat on the ground beside the small shaft with her arms
about its top. At four o'clock in the morning we were down
opposite the prisoner.
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