"You are a fine fellow! You cannot swim, you say.

Now, if you should not kneel"-- "Retire!" cried Otto, "or I will swim out into the stream, and not return again!" "That might be original enough," answered Wilhelm.

"Swim forth, or come and kneel here!" "Wilhelm!" cried Otto, with an affecting sigh, and in a moment swam forth with quick strokes.
"There he shoots away," said one of the party.

"How he cuts the waves! He is a splendid swimmer!" Smiling they gazed over the expanse; Otto swam even farther out.
"But where will he swim to ?" exclaimed, somewhat gravely, one of the spectators.

"He will certainly lose his strength before he returns the same distance." They unmoored the boat.