Chapter
1 I | Aberfoyle coal-mines, Dochart pit, Yarrow shaft, a communication
2 I | galleries of the Dochart pit. Above ground, the sheds,
3 I | where the shaft of that pit had been sunk, it being
4 I | great yard of the Dochart pit, formerly heaped with coal
5 I | the foreman of the Dochart pit, then fifty-five years of
6 I | extracted from the Dochart pit.” And in confirmation of
7 I | roads leading to the Dochart pit resounded for the last time
8 I | long way from the Dochart pit.”~“A long way, Simon? Where
9 I | what could it be? Dochart pit. Yarrow shaft! What recollections
10 I | to repair to the Dochart pit!” James Starr always came
11 II | desire to visit the Dochart pit. And besides, if after all
12 II | us good-by in the Dochart pit. I haven’t forgotten that
13 II | What! In the Dochart pit?”~“Yes, Mr. Starr,” replied
14 III | CHAPTER III THE DOCHART PIT~HARRY FORD was a fine, strapping
15 III | as overman of the Dochart pit, if the colliery had not
16 III | they reached the Dochart pit.~The most indifferent person
17 III | the lower galleries of the pit. The engineer bent over
18 III | the bottom of the Dochart pit and the open air. As to
19 III | the riches of the Dochart pit.~Harry descended the first
20 III | neighbors in the bottom of the pit,” replied Harry. “We are
21 III | hoe. And then, in the old pit, there were vaulted roofs,
22 III | the lowest floor of the pit.~From the bottom of the
23 III | the whole plan of the old pit still in my head.”~Harry,
24 IV | established in the Dochart pit. Owing to its lesser density,
25 IV | traction of the Dochart pit.~Such was the habitation, “
26 IV | former overman of the Dochart pit, bore the weight of sixty-five
27 IV | was overman of the Dochart pit, the most important in the
28 IV | life in the well-worked pit. He was, however, supported
29 IV | wish to leave the Dochart pit any more than had her husband.
30 IV | explosions of fire-damp in a pit quite empty of coal.~“Yes,
31 V | supernatural in the Dochart pit figured Jack Ryan, Harry’
32 V | origin in the mine, from one pit to another. These accounts
33 V | desertion of the Dochart pit. Perhaps good Madge, like
34 V | visiting the west end of the pit, distinctly heard distant
35 V | labyrinth of the Dochart pit, he had been on the point
36 V | being prowled about in the pit. But whatever he could do,
37 VI | very end of the Dochart pit.~After following the principal
38 VI | seam of coal in the Dochart pit.”~All that the old overman
39 VI | the riches of the Dochart pit were not entirely exhausted.
40 VI | gallery at this end of the pit widened into a sort of dark
41 VI | of coal from the Dochart pit.~“We must attack the dyke,”
42 VII | this visit to the Dochart pit?”~“No, no, my old friend!”
43 VII | the heights of the Dochart pit; and the fire-damp, spreading
44 VIII | orifice which put the Dochart pit in communication with the
45 VIII | fall into some fathomless pit.”~“Let us rest awhile, then,
46 VIII | to return to the Dochart pit. The road was easy, the
47 VIII | way back to the Dochart pit. For the first mile no incident
48 VIII | passage leading to the Dochart pit for nearly five miles. There
49 VIII | Aberfoyle with the Dochart pit?”~“No,” replied Harry, whose
50 IX | Glasgow and go to the Dochart pit; and this he would have
51 IX | the ladder of the Dochart pit! That was ten days ago!
52 IX | descend to the depths of the pit, if necessary, to find Harry,
53 IX | used when he visited the pit was usually deposited in
54 IX | acquainted with the Dochart pit, or he would scarcely have
55 IX | between the depths of the pit and the upper regions. If
56 IX | that he had not left the pit since the day Ryan met with
57 IX | principal passage of the Dochart pit. The others all followed
58 IX | southwest direction of the pit, and began to think they
59 X | caused him to leave the pit. There, then, he lived in
60 XI | to see us at the Dochart pit. No sooner does he enter
61 XI | concealed at the bottom of the pit into which he was going
62 XI | he slowly sank into the pit. As the rope caused him
63 XI | These walls consisted of pit coal, and so smooth that
64 XI | from the side walls of the pit, which was gradually narrowing
65 XI | concluded that the bottom of the pit communicated with a gallery
66 XI | passage led aside out of the pit. He had to stoop to look
67 XI | little creature out of the pit, and take it home to his
68 XII | he had rescued from the pit.~Harry imagined her a mere
69 XII | might have been in that pit.~“How many days had you
70 XII | mysterious denizens of the pit abandoned it, or ceased
71 XIII | cottage or at the works in the pit. Jack did not fail to remark
72 XIII | the lower regions of the pit. He did so by means of one
73 XIV | remained ignorant in the gloomy pit; all the varied aspects
74 XIV | when I have not left the pit for a long time.”~“It is
75 XIV | all about our dark coal pit.”~“No, Harry, never!” said
76 XV | Loch Malcolm in the coal pit.”~It was by this time three
77 XVI | the upper regions of the pit.~It was feared that the
78 XVI | the last vein in our old pit. Harry, your son, has robbed
79 XVII | last “monk” of the Dochart pit.~In former days, before
80 XVII | temper the deeper the Dochart pit— his pit!—was worked out.
81 XVII | deeper the Dochart pit— his pit!—was worked out. It just
82 XVII | old fireman of the Dochart pit.”~“Well, now, then,” said
83 XVII | was in the caverns of the pit. I am sure, Mr. Starr, if
84 XVII | seen in the gloom of the pit, but I could not endure
85 XVIII| issuing from that part of the pit, could be lighted by Silfax.
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