Let us see if she has forgotten how to swim." Harriet
threw Margery off. The latter splashed and floundered in the cold
water, then all at once struck off for the shore. She reached it and
scrambled to the bank, up which she staggered and sank whimpering to
the earth.
Jane and Harriet swam shoreward. Jane was laughing almost
hysterically. Though she felt chilled and exhausted, Harriet's eyes
twinkled. The two struggled to the bank, there to sit down laughing.
"Are you safe?" shouted Miss Elting.
"Hoo-e-e-e!" answered the two girls.
"Are you all right, Tommy?" Harriet next called across the pond.
"Yeth, but I'm _almotht_ wet and cold. My clothes are thoaked, and
there are ithicleth hanging from my eyebrowth. Thomebody better thave
me?"
"Come over here," proposed Harriet, teasingly, "and we will."
"I can't," Tommy replied, with a shake of her head. "Too many
thraight, high rockth in the way."
"Swim across, darlin'," urged Jane.
"Can't do that either, the water ith too cold."
"Then you'll have to stay where you are," laughed Jane. "If you get
hungry, come over and I'll give you a biscuit to take back there with
you.
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