`` Leave me , Dick ! '' he cried , pantingly ; `` I can no more . '' Dick turned , and came back to where his companion lay . `` Nay , Jack , leave thee ! '' he cried . `` That were a knave 's trick , to be sure , when ye risked a shot and a ducking , ay , and a drowning too , to save my life . Drowning , in sooth ; for why I did not pull you in along with me , the saints alone can tell ! '' `` Nay , '' said Matcham , `` I would ` a ' saved us both , good Dick , for I can swim . '' `` Can ye so ? '' cried Dick , with open eyes . It was the one manly accomplishment of which he was himself incapable . In the order of the things that he admired , next to having killed a man in single fight came swimming . `` Well , '' he said , `` here is a lesson to despise no man . I promised to care for you as far as Holywood , and , by the rood , Jack , y ' are more capable to care for me . '' `` Well , Dick , we 're friends now , '' said Matcham . `` Nay , I never was unfriends , '' answered Dick . `` Y ' are a brave lad in your way , albeit something of a milksop , too . I never met your like before this day . But , prithee , fetch back your breath , and let us on . Here is no place for chatter . ''
`` My foot hurts shrewdly , '' said XXXXX .
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