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Speaker 1: Tug of War by Jonas Lye. For the last two

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or three days the weather had been terrific. But on

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the third day it was so far cleared up that

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one of the men who belonged to the fishing station

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thought that they might manage to drag the nets a

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bit that day. The others, however, were not inclined to

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venture out. Now, it is the custom for various crews

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to lend each other a hand in pushing off the boats,

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and so it happened now. When, however, they came to

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the Fenenbourging, which was drawn up a good distance ashore,

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they found the oars and thwarts turned upside down in

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the boat. And more than that, despite all their exertions,

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it was impossible to move the boat from the spot.

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They tried once, twice thrice, but it was of no use.

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But then one of them, who was known to have

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second sight, said that from what he saw, it would

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be best not to touch the boat at all that

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day it was too heavy for the might of man

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to move. One of the crew, however, who belonged to

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the fishing station, he was a smart lad of fourteen,

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was amusing them all the time with all manner of

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pranks and tomfoolery. He now caught up a heavy stone

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and pitched it with all his might right into the

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stern of the boat. Then, suddenly, and plainly visible to

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them all out of the boat rushed a drog in

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seaman's clothes, but with a heavy crop of seaweed instead

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of a head. It had been weighing down the boat

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by sitting in the stern, and now dashed into the sea,

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so that the foam spurted all over them. After that,

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the fembourging glided quite smoothly into the water. Then the

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man with second sight looked at the boy and said

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that he should not have done so. But the lad

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went on laughing as before, and said he didn't believe

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in such stuff. When they had come home in the evening,

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and the folks lay asleep in the fishing station, they

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heard about twelve o'clock at night the lad yelling for help.

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It even seemed to one of them by the light

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of the train oil lamp, as if a heavy hand

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were stretching forward from the door right up to the

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bench on which the lad lay. The lad, yelling and struggling,

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had already been dragged as far as the door before

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the others had so far come to their senses as

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to think to grasp him around the body to prevent

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him from being dragged right out. And now in mid

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doorway a hard fight began. The drog dragged him by

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the legs, while the whole crew tugged against him with

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the boy's arms and upper limbs. Thus, amidst yelling and groaning,

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they swayed to and fro all through the midnight hour,

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backwards and forwards in the half open door. And now

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the drog and now the men had the most of

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the boy on their side of the doorway. All at

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once the drog let go, so that the whole crew

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fell heiggelty pigglety backwards on the floor. Then they found

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that the boy was dead. It was only then that

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the Drog had let him go. The end of Tug

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of War by Jonas Lye