Down he went, well away from the rocks, feet first into the deep water, and, a moment later, appearing on the surface, swam to the skiff, grasped it astern, and climbed aboard, shivering from his icy bath.
"Oh, Bobby, you're a wonder!" exclaimed Jimmy.

"I never would have thought of that way of your getting off that line!" "'Twasn't anything," declared Bobby, deprecatingly, as he seated himself and picked up his oars.

"Now let's pull back where we can put on a fire.
I'm freezing cold." "I was scared when I found I couldn't pull you up," said Jimmy, as they rowed back to the gully.

"Wasn't you ?" "No, I wasn't scared," boasted Bobby.

"I was just getting cold and numb.