Opening, part 11 · page 21 2101For as he can't swim he'll drown, and we sha'n't have any more trouble with him!'102Now the goldsmith really could not swim, and as soon as he was thrown into the deep river he sank below the surface; so his enemies went away believing that they had seen the last of him.103But, in reality, he was carried down, half drowned, below the next bend in the river, where he fortunately came across a 'snag' floating in the water (a snag is, you know, a part of a tree or bush which floats very nearly under the surface of the water); and he held on to this snag, and by great good luck eventually came ashore some two or three miles down the river.104At the place where he landed he came across a fine fat cow buffalo, and immediately he jumped on her back and rode home.105When the village people saw him, they ran out in surprise, and said:1 2← previousOpening, part 10next →Opening, part 12↑ back to The Orange Fairy BookThis page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/11/page/2/