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At a day care center in Texas, children were playing outside. One of the children was Jessica McClure. She was only 18 months old. Jessica’s mother, who worked at the day care center, was watching the children. Suddenly Jessica fell and disappeared. Jessica’s mother cried and ran to her.
A well(井) was in yard of the center. The well was only eight inches across and a rock always covered it. But children had moved the rock. When Jessica fell, she fell right into the well.
Jessica’s mother reached inside the well, but she couldn’t feel Jessica. She ran to the phone and dialed 911for help. Men from the fire department arrived. They discovered that Jessica was about 20 feet down in the well. For the next hour the men talked and planned Jessica’s rescue(营救). Then they told Jessica’s parents their plan.
“We can’t go into the well,” they said. “It’s too narrow. So, we’re going to drill(钻孔) a hole next to the well. Then we’ll drill a tunnel across to Jessica. Next, we’ll bring her up through our hole.”
The men began to drill the hole on a Wednesday morning. “We’ll reach Jessica in a few hours,” they thought. The men were wrong. They had to drill through solid rock. Two days later, on Friday morning, they were still drilling. And Jessica McClure was still in the well.
During he days in the well, Jessica sometimes called her mother. Sometimes she slept, sometimes she cried, and sometimes she sang.
All over the world, people waited for news of Jessica. They read about her in newspapers and watched her rescue on TV. Everyone worried about the litt