Hoomey tried.
He didn’t want to die.
He swam’ keeping up with Nails’s feet.
Every time he started to go down’ Nails pulled him up with his toe.
Then just when Hoomey thought he really was going to die, Nails’s foot pulled him up out of the water and, with a quick push, stood him up.
The water was half – way up his body.
He looked round and saw that he was three – quarters of the way down the pool!