Part 61 (1/2)
”Well, aren't you going to have another try? It's lovely Only wants plenty of perseverance”
”Not I,” replied Aleck ”You don't seeot on so very well”
”Got on as well as you did,” snarled the h! It was horrid
Just as if, when I felt that I could hold reat sink-hole, only the water was running up instead of down”
”Yes, that's just how I felt,” said Aleck
”You couldn't have felt so bad as I did,” said the lad, irritably and speaking in the ainst the stones overhead, and it's bleeding fast Look at it, will you?”
Aleck exa the door of the lanthorn
”It isn't bleeding,” he said
”Don't talk nonsense,” cried the middy, irritably ”It s down the back of my neck”
”That's water out of your hair”
”Are you sure?”
”Yes, certain I can't even see a ru to have another try?”
”No Are you?”
”Not if I know it,” replied the h for a trip of that kind”
”I don't think it's possible to get out by swilers get in”
”Yes, at certain times”
”Then this is an uncertain ti to dress
”Hadn't we better get round and have a good rub with a bit of sail?”
asked Aleck
”No; we can't carry our clothes without getting the all the way round here again Let's dress as we are; the salt water will soon dry”
”Very well,” said Aleck, and he followed his cos, listening the while to the s, for he had been under water long enough to ly discontented and ill-hureeable re to his wet back; another ti consequent upon his being drier; and then he began to abuse Eben Megg
”A beast; that's what he is It's just as bad asus with a knife or chopper, that it is”
They were dressed at so achieved his task quietly, the rumbles and unpleasant remarks