“Quick， quick. Stones. Fill up the opening，” came uddleglum’s voice in the darkness beside her. It was pitch lack in there， except for the grey light in the opening by hich they had crawled in. The other two were working ard. She could see Scrubb‘s small hands and the Marsh. iggle’s big， frog.like hands black against the light， working esperately to pile up stones. Then she realized how mportant this was and began groping for large stones erself， and handing them to the others. Before the dogs ere baying and yelping at the cave mouth， they had it retty well filled； and now， of course， there was no light at l.
“Farther in， quick，” said Puddleglum‘s voice. “Let’s all hold hands，” said Jill.
“Good idea，” said Scrubb. But it took them quite a long me to find one another‘s hands in the darkness. The dogs ere sniffing at the other side of the barrier now.