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"Hi! Captain Bannister! " I shouted, "hi!"
Someone -- not the Captain, but a boy in a blue shirt -- looked up from the wheel. Then I heard Mr. Snider come crashing and floundering through the underbrush, so I waded into the water until I was waist-deep and then struck out to swim. Before I had made a dozen strokes Mr. Snider emerged, and ran down to the water's edge.