The water that filtered from the shaft was falling in great drops, and the floor of the pit-eye, shaken by this tramping, was trembling over the sump, the muddy cesspool ten metres deep.
Les filtrations du puits tombaient a grosses gouttes, et le plancher de l'accrochage, ébranlé par le piétinement, tremblait au-dessus du bougnou, du puisard vaseux, profond de dix metres.