Adrift in the Wilds

from drowning had none known how to swim, provided they managed the matter prudently. There is so little difference in the quantity of water and the human body, that a slight effort,

is little doubt, I think, of reaching land. There i

is t

ught of

xpression of disgust. "I've been thinking of 'em ever since

e entered my he

d Elwood. "Are they in

rt of the sea, I was going to say. The

and they will no

draw hundreds of the finny inhabitants toward us.

"but I shall continue to think that God who has so

o harm to understand all the da

ey are ugly creatures. They swim under you and the first thing you know clip goes one

ds are stupid and harmless. I think I have heard them called that by somebo

o think of their saaing four pair of legs dancing over their hid

still, it is

the subject, but as yez have got started

alk about somethi

ed Elwood, springing half his lengt

rd, while the others wer

g! O, save me, for he

ld go to the bottom, but Mr. Yard displaye

he, "or he would have had

then? What

t as he was going down. You must kick him off

e is grasped

feet it would be bad for you. Use your

e inexpressible relief of announcing that the dra

. "Just to think of being seized in that way by some poor f

e there?" a

may be more near us. This man has gone down just as we were pa

a straw, wouldn't he be after c

but we are in the most dangerous place w

ell of the sea. They saw pieces of charred wood and fragments of the wreck, but caug

covered with p

to be stand

n no doubt they will be picked up and cared for. Keep qu

truggling harder than ever. "Aich

the same cautions undertone. "Le

em as they advanced. They had passed safely the debris of the wrecked steamer, and

thing flowting

said Mr. Yard. "I have notice

ot indicated, and agreed that Mr. Y

ietly added, and then c

nt?" came back

ur drowning pass

swer, "Paddle away and you'll re

are we

e, divide by two, a

rd laughing and talking boisterously with each other, and the odo

upon them!" said Mr. Yard. "If we

are t

eized the boat at the first appearance of

d when our friends were toiling bravely forward, a low

t?" whispe

. "I am walking upon the sand this