"You'll only go into the water and drown, for there's no place for you to stand." "Well," Bobby insisted, "let me down nearer the water.

I feel all the time as though the line was going to break, and I'm so high up from it that it makes me dizzy swinging around this way." "Holler when you want me to stop," shouted Jimmy, rising and running back.
But Jimmy found that after all he could let Bobby down only a very little way when he came to the end of the line.

So he fastened it again.
"That's as far as it will go!" he called, lying down on his face again to look over the cliff at Bobby, who was now about twenty feet above the water.
"Then go and get the boat and fetch it down," shouted Bobby.

"Hurry, Jimmy.

I can't hang here much longer.