"I say, how a thing like that hurts! It's worse than carrying a hammer.

I'm quite sore." Mike laughed, and again more heartily upon seeing Vince begin to secure the grapnel with a sea-going knot to the length of rope.
"Let those laugh that lose," cried Vince sententiously; "they are sure to who win." "Enough to make any one laugh," cried Mike.

"What are you going to bait with ?" "You, if you like," said Vince sharply, "Wonder what I should catch ?" "Here! no nonsense," cried Mike: "what are you really going to do ?" "What we've been talking about so long.

Try and get up through that crack up there." Mike whistled.
"Why, of course," he said.

"What a good idea! But I don't believe it goes in above a foot or two." "Oh yes, it does," said Vince decisively.