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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: which was not an oar's length off, turned to pull away. Whereby
befell a notable adventure: for John Brimblecombe, casting about in
a valiant mind how he should distinguish himself that day, must
needs catch up a boat-hook, and claw on to her stern, shouting,
"Stay, ye Papists! Stay, Spanish dogs!"--by which, as was to be
expected, they being ten to his one, he was forthwith pulled
overboard, and fell all along on his nose in the sea, leaving the
hook fast in her stern.
Where, I know not how, being seized with some panic fear (his
lively imagination filling all the sea with those sharks which he
had just seen), he fell a-roaring like any town-bull, and in his
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