"I just thought of something."
"What?"
"Say, lots of folks would pay money to see this, wouldn't they?"
"Never mind that now. Are you all right?"
"Yes, except my knees."
"Ha-ul a-way."
The boys on the other end of the rope hauled steadily now, and the fat boy drew nearer and nearer to the ledge.
As he rose higher, hanging suspended like a spider from the end of his gossamer thread between the sky and the ground, a sudden thought struck Blinky. It would be manifestly impossible to haul Tubby over the edge of the ledge which projected like the eaves of a roof. Hardly had the thought flashed across his mind before a shout of alarm came from the boys, simultaneously with a sharp:
Crack!
"The rope!" came a wild yell from the tree.