We shall most likely want it again, and certainly we shall want the rope.

I have been puzzling over it, and I think I have found a way at last.

My idea is to fasten this thin rope to the point of the hook, then, on pulling upon it the point will rise until it gets level with the top of the wall on which it is fixed, and we can then shake it down without difficulty.

I don't know whether it will act, but I think that it ought to do so; an upward pull at the point must, I should think, lift it as far as the edge." "I should think that it must," Paolo agreed.

"I should never have thought of that." "We will try it on this last division wall.