Stay, I will go first; it will give you confidence." Twisting his long frame into the basket, he clasped his arms round his knees, and the others began to raise him by well-secured pulleys.

The woman grew quite red in the face with the exertion of getting him over the window-ledge, and I own I trembled for him.
"All is right, he is safely down," said she, at length, and helped to pull up the basket.

"Now, young man; you're not afraid ?" "Oh no; only don't let me down too fast." "That must depend on how heavy you are.

We can't keep dangling you between sky and earth all night.

Come; you are not nearly as heavy as your brother.