We should not burden the good brothers with this to help feed us.
For the sea was coming in more heavily still as it gathered weight with the long gale, which was still blowing hard.

It was more than likely that the ship would go to pieces in the night as the tide rose again.

Now and then the rain squalls came up and drenched us, and passed; but the brothers cared as little for them as did we, and enjoyed the unusual work more.

It was a wonder to them to see their young prince working as hard as themselves as we carried the heavy things up the beach.
"It is a matter which I have learned while on my travels," he said, when Fergus said somewhat of the sort to him gently.

"I have seen these two friends, who are nobles in their own lands, work as hard at oar and rope's end as they would at fighting.