Part 47 (1/2)
”Because you can see the rock bottom It's shallow as shallow”
”And how do you know that it doesn't go down like a wall as soon as you get in?”
”We could feel our ith a stick, step by step; or, I knoe'd get the rope--bring a good long one--and I'd fasten it round your waist and stand at the door and send you in Of course I'd soon pull you out if you went down”
”Thank you,” cried Mike, ”you are kind My lad I had you for a co was so lonely You are a very nice boy, 'pon my word”
”Yes; I wouldn't let you drown,” said Vince
”Thank ye I say, Cinder, when you catchinto a place like that, just you tell hed
”Why, who knohat's in there?” said Mike, with a shi+ver
”Ah! who knows?” said Vince merrily ”I tell you what it is, Ladle: that s live that old Joe talked about”
”What things?”
”Those that take hold of a boat under water, and pull it along till it can't corin, Cinder,” said Mike seriously; ”but, do you know, I thought all that ere out yonder in the boat It felt just as if so as hard as it could, and et back”
”Did you?” said Vince quietly
”Yes, you needn't sneer You're such a wooden-headed, solid chap, nothing ever shakes you; but it was a very awful sensation”
”I wasn't sneering,” said Vince, ”because I felt just the sah I wanted to laugh at it because it was absurd, I couldn't then But, I say, though, we et to the end of that cave, just to see how far it goes”
”Ugh! It's bad enough going through a dark hole with a stone floor”
”Till you're used to it See hoe ca through cold, black water, with all kinds of live things waiting to s there they'd soon scuttle out of our way”
”Ah, you don't know,” said Mike ”In a place like this they grow big because they're not interfered with Those were the biggest seals I ever saw”
”Yes, they were tidy ones The biggest, I think”
”Yes, and thereone of his eight legs, all over suckers, round you, and trying to pull you into his hole”
”Take out your knife and cut the ars”