"Better off here.

Fishes won't be able to get at us and eat us afterwards." "Ugh! how can you talk in that horrid way at a time like this!" "To keep up our spirits," said Vince.

"Perhaps it isn't so bad.

She's on a bank, I'm sure, and perhaps--yes, that's it--they're trying to lighten her and make her float." "They're not," said Mike excitedly.

"Why, they're bringing other things down.