Part 75 (2/2)
”I say, Mas' Don, I thought I was gone”
”You made my heart seem to jump into my mouth”
”Did I, lad? Well, it k'ard I was scared lest I should knock you off Felt just as I did when the chain broke, and you could see the link opening, and a big sugar-hogshead threatening to coet on down Think we're birds' nesting, Mas'
Don, and it'll be all right”
Don had to nerve himself once more, and they steadily lowered themselves from tuft to tuft, and from stone to stone, with more confidence, till they were about thirty feet froress beca perpendicular, the cliff face sloped inward for so perpendicular once more
”Well, I do call that stoopid,” said Je to do now?”
”I don't know, Jem If we had a bit of rope we could easily descend”
”And if we'd got wings, Mas' Don, we ht fly”
”We must climb back, Jem, as--Look here, would these trees bear us?”
”Not likely,” said Jerew up at the foot of the precipice, and whose fine pointed tops ithin a few feet of where they clung
”But if we could reach theet fast hold, they would bend and let us down”
”They'd let us down,” said Je to the face of the rock, hesitating, and wondering whether by any possibility they could get down another way, and finding that it was absolutely hopeless, he made up his mind to act
”It is next to impossible to climb up, Jeet down”
”No, Mas' Don We shall have to live here for a bit, only I don't knoe're going to eat and sleep”
”Je to jump into that tree”
”No, Mas' Don, you mustn't risk it”
”And if it breaks--”
”NeverWhat I don't like is, s'pose you break”
”I shall go first, and you can try afterwards”
”No, no, Mas' Don; let me try first”