"Think of the poor dear dog." "The BABY!" screamed Bobbie.
In an instant all three made for the barge.
Her mooring ropes were slack, and the little breeze, hardly strong enough to be felt, had yet been strong enough to drift her stern against the bank.

Bobbie was first--then came Peter, and it was Peter who slipped and fell.

He went into the canal up to his neck, and his feet could not feel the bottom, but his arm was on the edge of the barge.
Phyllis caught at his hair.

It hurt, but it helped him to get out.

Next minute he had leaped on to the barge, Phyllis following.
"Not you!" he shouted to Bobbie; "ME, because I'm wet." He caught up with Bobbie at the cabin door, and flung her aside very roughly indeed; if they had been playing, such roughness would have made Bobbie weep with tears of rage and pain.