he would stride up and down the length of the beastmore strides than he could hold with his fingersstride up and down and across what he has come to easily sound as water-housestride up and down , day after day , but on some days being unable to walk for all on the water-house had to hold onto the sides or a beam or anything nailed down as the angry sun devouring sea heaved and shoved them and told him , so frak knew , that it didnt like them walking on it ... there was to be no big wet gad !