I'd swim, _I_ would." "Ah, but if you got nothing to eat for ever so long ?" said Tom, his imagination becoming quite active under the stimulus of that dread.
"When I'm a man, I shall make a boat with a wooden house on the top of it, like Noah's ark, and keep plenty to eat in it,--rabbits and things,--all ready.

And then if the flood came, you know, Bob, I shouldn't mind.

And I'd take you in, if I saw you swimming," he added, in the tone of a benevolent patron.
"I aren't frighted," said Bob, to whom hunger did not appear so appalling.

"But I'd get in an' knock the rabbits on th' head when you wanted to eat 'em." "Ah, and I should have halfpence, and we'd play at heads-and-tails," said Tom, not contemplating the possibility that this recreation might have fewer charms for his mature age.

"I'd divide fair to begin with, and then we'd see who'd win." "I've got a halfpenny o' my own," said Bob, proudly, coming out of the water and tossing his halfpenny in the air.