Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 434
desperate case. Waitinguntil the comb of a wave passed under the ship, motionless and utterly wearied, on the sand.Rasmus rested, too, for a few minutes, thentrudged bravely into the teeth of the gale to bringhis companions to the rescue, now that the rescuewas done. Hardly believing his amazing… … Y STRUGGLED UP THE BEACH. Rasmus, human freight and all, jumped, ridingin on the back of the wave. Then the terrible undertow took grip on hislegs, and sucked, sucked, sucked, with the steady,lifelike pull that saps a mans strength with theterror of it. But Rasmus was cool, and Rasmusknew the sand…
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