I had done some of my multiplyin’ and subtractin’ out loud, onbeknown to me, and Josiah hearn me, and said he guessed he wouldn’t go. He looked round the Heavens and earth as if to find a suitable excuse, and finally he sez—
“It seems so kinder muggy to-day, I guess I won’t go, though I should enjoy the trip immensely if it wuzn’t for the clost atmosphere.”
Wall, I wuz glad to have him gin it up on any account.
Al Faizi didn’t seem to care about goin’, nor Alice, nor Adrian.
But Martin said that he wouldn’t want it to be said that he hadn’t visited the caves.
So he sot off with a couple of boatmen.
There wuz a dretful sort of a heavey look to the Atlantic, and I wuz glad that I didn’t venter, for I felt truly that the Giants, if they ever heard on’t, would make allowances for my feelin’s in not dastin’ to venter out on the Atlantic in a boat.
As it turned out, glad enough wuz I that there didn’t none of the rest on us go, for there come up a sudden squall right when Martin wuz in the cave, and they had to hurry out for their lives. The rough waves wuz a-washin’ the boat up aginst them hard pillows of stun, and they wuz in sech danger of their lives that the boatmen had to jump out on the rocks the best way they could, and haul Martin, more dead than alive, up over the rocks.
Drippin’ wet when he come back.