Instead they picked her up bodily and tossed her
into the pond. Tommy screamed and tried to fight, but she had little
opportunity for resistance before she went in with a splash.
They sprang in after her, pulling the girl down, she having got to her
feet in the meantime.
"Swim! swim, or we will hold your head under!" threatened Jane.
Tommy refused to swim.
"Grab her foot. We'll tow her," commanded Harriet. Suiting the action
to the word, she grasped one of Tommy's ankles, and throwing herself on
her back began to swim with feet and free arm for the opposite side of
the pond.
"Hooray!" cried Jane, making a couple of leaps forward, and getting a
firm hold of the other ankle of the now loudly screaming Tommy. "Toot,
toot! The tug is going ahead. How do you like being towed, darlin'?"
Tommy's yells indicated that she did not fancy it, especially being
towed feet first. Her head went under water almost instantly. Tommy
was obliged to help herself or drown. She began working her arms,
trying to keep her head above water, but found it awkward swimming that
way. She never had tried the feet first style of swimming.
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