Then Harriet tied one end of the rope to a root of a tree that stood on the brink.
"Look out below!" she warned, at the same time dropping the coil through the foliage and shaking the rope until the coil finally dropped into the stream.

"Please draw the rope up to the boat," she called.

"That's it.
Now pull me back, Jane." Jane McCarthy did so with some assistance from Harriet, who clawed at the roots of the tree and pushed with her hands until she finally got to the top once more.

Reaching there she got up and surveyed the work with approval.
"Can you see the rope, Jane ?" Miss McCarthy shook her head.
"If you have to go down it be careful that you don't fall before you get to the rope.

Now do you understand ?" "Do I?
This is going to be great fun.