"You can thank a kind Providence that your life was spared." "You must have leaned on the rail awfully hard," put in Nellie.
"Leaned on the rail ?" repeated Tom.

"It wasn't my fault that I went overboard.

It was Dan Baxter's." "Dan Baxter!" came from several.
"Exactly.

He tackled me in the dark, and we had it hot and heavy for a minute.

Then he crowded me on the rail, and it gave way.