I wonder how you'd taste ?" "I say, do be serious, Cinder.

It's too horrible to laugh at it." "Well, so it is, old chap, but I am thinking hard all the time, yet I can't see any way out of it.

I know we could swim almost like seals; but look at the water out there,--we couldn't do anything in it." "No, we should be sucked down in five minutes." "Yes.

The old pirate knows it, too, and that's why he leaves us alone.
I say, he does look like a pirate, though, doesn't he?
with that pistol, and the rings in his ears." "Oh! I never saw a pirate, only on those pictures we tried to paint.
But what about the cliffs ?" "No good.

They're either straight up and down or overhanging.