Then I shall take it and stand close to the edge, and pay it out gradually as you go down.

If you should find any projecting piece of rock, call out 'Stop!' I will hold on at once.

We can then talk over how we can best avoid the difficulty.

When you are down, and I tell you Dick is coming, take hold of one of the steps, and hold the ladder as firmly as you can, so as to prevent it from swaying about.
"Now, are you ready ?" "Quite ready," Surajah said, in a firm voice.
Dick, who was standing five or six yards back, tightened the rope.
Gradually he saw Surajah's figure disappear over the edge.
"Slack out a little bit," his father said.

"That is right.