human
What's that?
gpt
What?
human
Sounds like distant roaring of some kind of wild beast, sir,
gpt
That it aren't, messmate, said Joe, who had also risen to his feet, and stood with his hand behind his ear.
human
It's another storm coming. Nay, it aren't. It's all bright and clear that way. Why, it's water, gentlemen, coming with a rush from just the way we want to go.
gpt
Impossible! cried the doctor.
human
Why, it would be against the stream.
gpt
I don't care, sir, begging your pardon. I've been in the Trent and the Severn and the Wye. It was only when I was a boy, but I recollect right enough. It's what they used to call a bore, with a great wave of water coming up the river like a flood and washing all before it.
human
Had we better land?
gpt
And lose our boat, sir? No. Be smart, my lads. It can't be very far away. All eight of you, oars out, and we must keep our head to it so as we can ride over the big wave and let it pass under us. I don't suppose there will be much of it. It's a sort of flood water coming down from yonder after the storm, and it will soon be over. Don't you worry about it, gentlemen. It will be nothing to a big wave at sea.