I'll try, sir, if you like; I'm heavier." "Let me go down with you," Jack said.

"The two of us are heavier than a man, and we shall have four legs to keep us off the cliff.

Besides, we can help each other down below." "All right," Dick said.

"Fasten us to the rope, Hardy.

Make two loops so that we shall hang face to face, and yet be separate, and give me a short rope of two or three fathoms long, so that we can rope ourselves together, and one hold on in case the other is washed off his feet when we get down.