Why, I haven't even seen a fish!" "Well, I have," said Mike.

"I can see the mullet lying down here in the still black water, so thick that they almost touch one another." "You can?
Well, I'll come and have a look presently.

Here goes for a wade." Vince gave the bottoms of his trousers an extra roll, so as to get them as high as possible above his knees, and leaning forward from where he stood upon a detached block of stone, he rested his hands upon the side of the great buttress, and lowered one foot into the water over ankle, calf, and knee; and then he uttered a cry, and nearly went headlong, but making a violent effort, he wrenched himself back, thrusting the rock with all his might, and came down in a sitting position upon the great stone..