"Pull for your lives!" And they did pull, two boys on one side, and Sam and old Jerry on the other.

The girls huddled in the stern, expecting every moment to see the little craft turn bottom side up.

They scraped along the side of the doomed ship, and then along some rocks.

Captain Blossom was in the bow, peering ahead.
"To the left!" he yelled.

"Quick!" And then came a shock, and the captain disappeared beneath the waves.
"The captain is gone!" screamed Dora, but she was hardly heard, for the ship was pounding on the rocks, and the spray was flying in all directions.