human
Struck a rock, I reckon, said the cowboy.
gpt
This cayuse'll be all right in a minute, an' I'll try to shove her off. Must be we've headed along some new channel. There hadn't ought to be rocks in the main river.
human
Deep water on three sides, he announced,
gpt
No! No! cried the girl, in a sudden panic of fear.
human
You can't swim, and suppose something should happen and the boat moved off before you could climb into it? You'd be washed off the rock in a minute, and I--I couldn't stand it alone!
gpt
The way she's millin' around on the rock, I'm afraid she'll rip her bottom out. She's leakin' already. There's more water in here now, than when we started to bail.
human
Most of it splashed in over the side--see, when the waves break.
gpt
Maybe, assented the Texan, carelessly, but in the darkness he stooped and with his fingers located a crack where the planking had been forced apart, through which the river water gushed copiously. Without a word he stepped to the girl's saddle and took down the rope.
human
We've got to get off here, he insisted,
gpt
As he talked he passed the loop of the rope over his head and made it fast about his shoulders, and allowing ten or twelve feet of slack, knotted it securely to a ring in the end of the boat.
human
There, now I can get onto the rock an' by using the pole for a crow-bar, I can pry us off, then if I get left I'll just trail along on this rope until I can pull myself in.