Another round of laughter burst out from the men standing round the Sacramento river.
"An' guess what 'append next?" The shorter well defined man exclaimed gazing round at the crowd hang off his every last word. "He did it! 'e turned right around an' did it!" The slim man proclaimed setting the group off in another fit of later.
One of the men with a pot bell to be proud of stepped up and challenged, "There ain't no way a bloke could so dumb as at' do som'in 'hat stupid."
"Oh Yeah?" The first man turned to another man, big and bulky and at least a head and a half taller then the first and says "Jump in." motioning to the river beside him.
"Okay George" he said with out hesitating. You could tell from the sound of his voice that he wasn't that bright.
He turned and jumped just like that.
"Ya' see that?" George boasted to the pot belly man.
"I don' believe it." he said astonished.
"'Ey Guys!" One of the other guys piped up, "Can that crazy guy swim?"
The man that throw him self in to the river was now flaring his limbs about trying to keep his head above the tide.
"Some one get a rope! An' fast!" the guy piped up again. A man in his early twenties with soft blond hair darted off.
"Lennie! You hear me? You got at' keep your head 'bove the water were getting rope!" George yelled out to the drowning man.
Just then the man who had run off came back with a good length of rope. "Tie a loop in the end" Pot belly yelled over the ciaos. The man who spoke up before, Tom, rushed over to tie it. They chucked the looped end in the river and managed to hit Lennie square in the head.
"Grab the end!" George hollowed over the rush of river.
Lennie listen.
"Everyone pull!" Potbelly shouted From the end the rope. Every one hulled in unison, moving a bout a foot back. "Pull!" he bellowed again. The men continued this in tell the had a had the frantic man in arms reach. George and Tom ran up and hulled Lennie out the rest of the way.
"Thank you George! Thank you!" Lennie blubbered out. "I didn' think I'd make it! I 'out I was going to die!" the large man sputtered. He was now clinging to George tightly. "Thank you George!"