Look here, Hardy, do you lie down and look over the edge, and when you hear me yell, let them hoist away.

Now for it!" The boys were slung as Dick had ordered.

"Lower away steadily," Dick said.

"Stop lowering if we yell." In another minute the lads were swinging in space, some ten feet out from the face of the cliff.

For the first few yards they descended steadily, and then, as the rope lengthened, the gusts of wind flung them violently against the face of the cliff.
"Fend her off with your legs, Jack; that's the way.