Now I'm going to swim up as far as they are, and then let myself float back.

You'll see me come down.

It's so easy.

You watch." "All right!" I said.
"You keep close in to the bank," he shouted; "the tide don't run there.
Keep on trying to throw yourself down and kick out like a frog.

You'll soon swim." I nodded, and stood holding on by a tuft of coarse sedge, watching him as he threw himself on his side, and went off pretty close to the bank, where the water was eddying; and the next minute he was beyond a clump of sedge that projected into the river, and I was alone.
I felt no dread now, for the water seemed pleasantly cool, and I began to grow more confident.