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NOW to return to Tom and Becky’s share in the picnic. They
tripped along the murky aisles with the rest of the company,
visiting the familiar wonders of the cave—wonders dubbed with
rather over-descriptive names, such as “The
Drawing-Room,” “The Cathedral,”
“Aladdin’s Palace,” and so on. Presently the
hide-and-seek frolicking began, and Tom and Becky engaged in it
with zeal until the exertion began to grow a trifle wearisome; then
they wandered down a sinuous avenue holding their candles aloft and
reading the tangled web-work of names, dates, post-office
addresses, and mottoes with which the rocky walls had been frescoed
(in candle-smoke). Still drifting along and talking, they scarcely
noticed that they were now in a part of the cave whose walls were
not frescoed. They smoked their own names under an overhanging
shelf and moved on. Presently they came to a place where a little
stream of water, trickling over a ledge and carrying a limestone
sediment with it, had, in the slow-dragging ages, formed a laced
and ruffled Niagara in gleaming and imperishable stone. Tom
squeezed his small body behind it in order to illuminate it for
Becky’s gratification. He found that it curtained a sort of
steep natural stairway which was enclosed between narrow walls, and
at once the ambition to be a discoverer seized him. Becky responded
to his call, and they made a smoke-mark for future guidance, and
started upon their quest. They wound this way and that, far down
into the secret depths of the cave, made another mark, and branched
off in search of novelties to tell the upper world about. In one
place they found a spacious cavern, from whose ceiling depended a
multitude of shining stalactites of the length and circumference of
a man’s leg; they walked all about it, wondering and
admiring, and presently left it by one of the numerous passages
that opened into it. This shortly brought them to a bewitching
spring, whose basin was incrusted with a frostwork of glittering
crystals; it was in the midst of a cavern whose walls were
supported by many fantastic pillars which had been formed by the
joining of great stalactites and stalagmites together, the result
of the ceaseless water-drip of centuries. Under the roof vast knots
of bats had packed themselves together, thousands in a bunch; the
lights disturbed the creatures and they came flocking down by
hundreds, squeaking and darting furiously at the candles. Tom knew
their ways and the danger of this sort of conduct. He seized
Becky’s hand and hurried her into the first corridor that
offered; and none too soon, for a bat struck Becky’s light
out with its wing while she was passing out of the cavern. The bats
chased the children a good distance; but the fugitives plunged into
every new passage that offered, and at last got rid of the perilous
things. Tom found a subterranean lake, shortly, which stretched its
dim length away until its shape was (...)
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