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"Get along with you! no," cried Day

I hesitated, for the water looked very dreadful, and in spite of the

burning sunshine it seeladly have run back toon

the brink of the river

"In with you," shouted Day, backing away from the bank, and the other

two boys stood a little way off, with the water up to their chests,

grinning and jeering

"He daren't"

"He's afraid"

"I say, don't you ju 'un, don't You learn to swi-tub in warm

water"

"Don't you take any notice of them," cried Day "You juular good leap They

can't"

I felt desperate The water seemed to drive me back, but all the time

the jeers of the boys pricked and stirred

Day to the letter, I placed e down into the darkness of the chilly water, which seemed

to roar and thunder in my ears, and then, before I knehere I was, I

found , half blind, with a curious burning