human
We’ll drown getting into that skiff, Walt,
gpt
Yes, if there is any chance here, I would rather stay till the tide goes down; wouldn’t you?
human
Yes, I would.
gpt
Say, Mr. Kramer, just lie off there, and wait; perhaps the water won’t come up here.
human
That’s just what I’m doing. You don’t catch me risk my boat in there unless you are ready to go under.
gpt
When is it high tide?
human
Five minutes before twelve.
gpt
I believe it won’t reach us, Ned. It is ten minutes off high now, and unless the last few waves are extra high we will have a standing-place in this cleft in the rock.
human
It is twelve o’clock and after, and we are all right.
gpt
Good! Then all you’ve got to do is to wait, and learn wisdom against another time. The tide will be down low enough to let you out of that trap in about two hours and a half, or three, at most.
human
We’ll starve to death. I didn’t know I was hungry until the danger was over.
gpt
You’ll be hungrier before you get off, shouted the hard-hearted Kramer, laughing provokingly.--
human
A good lesson for the young scamps. It seems they made a fuss about having a teacher go along with ’em to look after them, so the head man, Mr. Bernard, let ’em off alone to-day. That little chap, Joe, he owned they’d got enough of it.
gpt
I’ll lower them something with a line when we get ashore, said the mate, glancing up at the perpendicular face of the cliff.
human
It isn’t long ago that I was wrecked myself and wanted help.
gpt
Come on, boys; let’s go over to the boat-landing, and wait till Mr. Kramer gets back.