shoulders with a string, and the bag that I had brought I made fast

about my middle, and I held the great club in my teeth by the thong.

Then I plunged into the river and swam. Twice, stranger, the current

bore me under, and those on the bank shouted that I was lost; but I

rose again, and in the end I won the farther shore.

"Now those on the bank mocked no more; they stood still wondering, and

I walked on till I came to the foot of the cliff. That cliff is hard

to climb, stranger; when you are strong upon your feet, I will show