This text is missing some spaces, please add them: Thegirlscamejustintime;theyheldhimfastandtriedtofreehisbeardfromtheline,butallinvain,beardandlinewereentangledfasttogether.
The girls came just in time; they held him fast and tried to free his beard from the line, but all in vain, beard and line were entangled fast together.