"O, yes, they can. I saw two or three down thar."
They now walked on a little farther.
At this place the cliff was as steep as it had been behind; but the rocky shelves were more numerous, and down near the shore they projected, one beyond another, so that they looked like natural steps.
"If Solomon was caught by the tide anywhar hereabouts," said Captain Corbet, "thar's no uthly reason why he shouldn't save himself. He could walk up them rocks jest like goin up stairs, an git out of the way of the heaviest surf an the highest tide that these shores ever saw."
"It all depends," said Phil, "on whether he staid about here, or went farther up."
"Course—an it's my opinion that he did stay about here. He was never such an old fool as to go so far up as we did. Why, ef he'd a done so over them rocks, he'd never have got the use of his legs agin."
"Strange we don't see any signs of him."
"O, wal, thar's places yet we hevn't tried."
"One thing is certain—we haven't found any signs of him. If anything had happened, we'd have seen his basket floating."
"Yes, or his old hat."