Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

Chapter 23 -- Girls, Too!
who has long been held prisoner and all escape by a subterranean river route which eventually
brings them out in Paris, via the catacombs.
The Secret World of Og (1961)
by Pierre Berton is about four
siblings,
Penny, the leader,
Pamela, her common-sense
sister;
Peter, whose life’s ambition
is to become a garbageman,
and
Patsy, who collects frogs in
her pockets
who set out in search of their
baby brother,
Paul, better known as “The
Pollywog”
who has vanished mysteriously from their playhouse.
Accompanied by their fearless pets, the children descend
through a secret trapdoor into a strange underground world of
mushrooms, whose green inhabitants know but one word, “OG!”
In Beneath the Hill (1967) Jane Louise Curry, modern children
met a boy from a Welsh/Irish fairy clan who've dwelt in America
for centuries. When developers to bulldoze the landscape, the
magical folk release an underground river to wash away the
modern bane.
The company then retraced their steps, returning through the
passage to the forking of the ways, where the lamplit stair
climbed downward. A faint trembling beneath their feet told
them that the river flowed below through a channel or some
fissure in the rock. Its destination was the same as theirs --
the long galleries below -- and near where the stairway
ended, it issued forth to flow beneath low banks through the
series of dark chambers ahead.
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Detail of the Ogian river from
the 50th anniversary edition
Five or six of the Fair Folk waited for them at the water's edge. Two were kindling pine-knot
flares, which had been flattened to flat disks of wood. Another held by a tether an odd round
shell of a boat that Durwen promptly entered.
The others, except the three who had in charge the lamps and the boat, followed. Miggle did
so most reluctantly, for every time she reached her foot out, the gap of dark water between the
bank and low-riding boat grew larger. Not until the second rope had secured it, steadying it fast
against the bank, did she succeed in climbing in.
At once those left on shore set the wooden lamps afloat and freed the boat. Slowly, the wide
and shallow scallop moved out into the swifter center of the stream, and there, set amid a flotilla
of lights, it moved down the darkness.
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