“Tom Bodger!”
“Hullo!” came quickly.
“We’re shut in by the water.”
“Who’s ‘we’?”
“The cutter’s midshipman and I.”
“Wha–a–at! Then there arn’t nayther on yer dead and drownded, my lad?”
“No–o–o–o!”
“Then I say hooray! hooray! But can’t you swim out?”
“No. We’ve tried.”
“Ho!” came back. “Wait a bit.”