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Oh, that I was a good swimmer, or that I had a weapon." But Joe did not stay to hear what he said. But one idea was in his mind, that of rescuing his chum from peril. That he might not be in time never occurred to him. Blake gave a gurgling cry, threw up his hands, and disappeared from sight as Joe plunged in to go to his rescue. "It's got him the beast has him!" cried the Spaniard, excitedly.
Then there was a quick thrust off by the coxswain, the oars fell on either side with a splash, and the young midshipman stood up, balancing himself on the thwart in the stern-sheets, directing the officer who held the rudder-lines how to steer, for far-away on the moonlit water, when the swell rose high, he could still see the dark head and the rippling made by the swimmer struggling for his life.
"It's no use!" he called; "I'll have to tip over!" and the next second the canoe was upside down and both belligerents were in the water. The Porcupine floated high I suppose his hollow quills helped to keep him up and he proved a much better swimmer than I had expected, for he quickly made his way to the beach and disappeared in the woods, still chattering disrespectfully.
When they were still fifty yards from the stakeboat Dick suddenly changed his stroke and surged ahead, distinctly in the lead. "Confound the human steam launch!" gasped Hi, almost choking, as he saw the powerful strokes of the swimmer ahead. "He'll make me look like a fool if I don't haul up on him -and the distance left is so confoundedly short!"
"Fellows," he suggested, "something must have happened to old Tom." "Or else he's playing a joke on us," hinted Danny Grin, suspiciously. "It's some joke to remain under water four times as long as the average swimmer can do it," retorted Prescott. "But Tom may not be under water," spoke up Greg. "He didn't have time to get anywhere else," Dave declared.
"Can you skate?" inquired Romeo. "No," smiled Isabel. "Juliet can. She can skate as far as I can, and almost as fast." "Romie taught me," observed Juliet, with becoming modesty. "Do you play hockey? No, of course you don't, if you don't skate," he went on, answering his own question. "Can you swim?" "No," responded Isabel, sweetly. "Jule's a fine swimmer.
"To think that it is you who saves me!" he again declared eloquently, as they made the shore in comparative ease, for she was a fine swimmer. "It is the rest of the story," he said with great cheerfulness and aplomb as they stood on the shore in the morning sun, shoeless, coatless, but safe: and she understood. There was nothing else for him to do. The usual process of romance had been reversed.
My Indians had already come to a decision, and were arranging a spot for a fit bivouac; but I did not wish to give up all hopes of success so speedily, and set about examining with care the means of overcoming the difficulty. The torrent was not more than a hundred yards in breadth, and a good swimmer could with ease get over in a few minutes.
The crowd on the other powerboat heard the shout, if they had not all seen Purt's exhibition of diving. The dude went under just as deep as the dog, and did not come to the surface anywhere near as quickly. The Barnacle, whether he was a water-dog, or not, was a good swimmer.
Bosistow wrote out an account of it years after, and you shall read it for yourself. At one place they had to cross a river, and Billy being, like the most of our fishermen, no swimmer, his mates stuck him on a hurdle and pushed him over while they swam behind. You see the difference between these two fellows, and how little Providence made of it.
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