How your fingers do shake, to be sure!" "I call you to witness," said the other, with a shiver, "you are saving me on your own responsibility." "Can 'ee swim ?" "I could yesterday." "Then you can now, wi' a belt o' corks an' me to help.

Keep a hand on the line an' pull yoursel' along.

Tide's runnin' again by now.
When you'm tired, hold fast by the rope an' sing out to me.

Stop; let me chafe your legs a bit, for how you've lasted out as you have is more than I know." "I was on the foretop most of the night.

Those fools--" he broke off to nod at the corpses.
"They'm dead," put in Zeb, curtly.
"They lashed themselves, thinking the foremast would stand till daylight.