"It might only make me more dizzy." The flattened figure behind them wriggled noiselessly along.
"Just listen to the water," continued Hazelton.

"Tom, I'm half-inclined to think that the water is roughening." "I believe it is," agreed Tom.
"Fine time we'll have getting back, if a gale springs up from the southward," muttered Harry.
"See here, old fellow," interposed Tom vigorously, "you're not up to concert pitch to-night.

Now, I'll tell you what I'll do---first of all, what _you'll_ do.

You sit right down flat on the top of the wall.

Then I'll move on up forward and see what has been happening out there that should boom shoreward with such a racket.