“Will we have to go back?” asked Harry, anxiously.
“It looks like it.”
“Can’t we leap over?”
“We might try. I can, if you are willing to follow.”
“I kin jump dat easy enough,” put in Blumpo.
Jerry stepped back, and running a few feet, made the leap in safety. Harry followed, and then both boys waited for Blumpo Brown to join them.
The homeless youth measured the distance with his eye and came on like a steam engine.
But just before he reached the edge of the split he slipped and went headlong. Unable to stop himself, he crashed down into the opening head first.
In going over the rocks he twisted himself partly around.
With one hand he caught hold of a frail bush growing among the rocks.