“Nobody’s ever been there.”
“Indeed!”
“Oh yes, that’s right,” said Mike. “I’ve often heard the men talk about what an awful place it was, and say they wouldn’t go on any account.”
“And did that scare you?”
“Well, I don’t think it did, because I always felt afterwards that I should like to climb somewhere along there till I could look over down to the sea. But of course you couldn’t do it.”
“I don’t know,” said Vince; “I should like to try.”
“But after what old Joe Daygo said, you couldn’t go there in a boat.”
“Couldn’t you?”
“No.”
“Then how is it that old Joe himself can go?”