I wonder what it will be like to die." "I'm not thinking about dying," said Bobby, "and I'm not going to die till I have to.

It's the last thing I expect to do.

I'm thinking about getting a shelter made before it gets dark, and then keeping alive on here, and as comfortable as we can, until we get ashore." "I don't see how we're ever going to get ashore," Jimmy solemnly insisted.

"Not that I feel scared, though I'd rather live than die.

But it's an awful thing to feel that our bodies will be lost in the sea, and no one will know how we die." "If we have to die the sea is as good a place as any to die in, and what difference does it make about our bodies?
But," added Bobby, "we won't die if I can help it, and I don't believe we're going to.