If we want to make big discoveries, it's going to require us to wade into the unknown and really come to grips with everything that we don't yet understand.
From Red Caps they moved on to Kappas, creepy water-dwellers that looked like scaly monkeys, with webbed hands itching to strangle unwitting waders in their ponds.
It was important that we introduce water correctly to Charlie because the last thing we would want is to have some traumatic water experience and then have him be afraid of water for the rest of his life.
Then a dozen or more were shoved off, and the Don, tall like a crane and a good natural wader, jumped in after them, seized a struggling wether, and dragged it to the opposite shore.
Descending the eastern slopes of the Coast Range through beds of gilias and lupines, and around many a breezy hillock and bush-crowned headland, I at length waded out into the midst of it.
What with avoiding the holes, and wading through waist-high gorse and bracken, it took the boys an hour or so even to get up into the hills to practice.