Brave Tom; Or, The Battle That Won
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rd on the ferry-boat D. S. Gregory, one wintry night, as she was approachi
onfusion and excite
n doors, and were pushing toward the bow, eager to be the first to leap ashore, scarc
one was dreaming of anything wrong, when the
he swinging of the ponderous working-beam at the same second that he received the
re was such a general rush toward the bow that a dangerous dipping of the cra
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e jump
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he pu
e be s
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given, a woman gave utterance to the most heart-rending scream, and made such frantic attempts t
be her
eaker, when, falling limp and despairing into the
go to her; she is all that is lef
rd," called out some one who had seen
dy clave the air and dropped into the water within a few yards o
led out an excited individual. "Are all t
ance, had also fallen into the river, a belief which was quickly
and a goose and a fish all together; he jumped over to save that little girl
ain from more than one heart, and instantly transferred all interest to the brave you
dent took place, and the lights from the shipping
steam-tugs were puffing and darting here and there, in and out among the shipping, as though they were playing hide-and-seek with each other; another f
mething floating in the water; and though no one could define exactly what it was with the aid of the sight
working his way toward th
he steamer, which was gliding so closely by them that
efore recorded. It was natural that he should be deeply interested when his dearest friend was risking
! do you wa
ith enthusiasm, "and if there's a spalpeen on boord that don't jine in
n idle spectators during the f
er the life-preservers and hurling out the ropes, that none reached the lad, who was too in
r caused a slight and only partial reverse movem
ing so far over the rail that he was in danger of
nt. The boy was supporting the little form with o
e fling was made, the coil dropping so near the boy
the r?le, he certainly was a genius in his w
s environed by death. The most skillful swimmer in the world cannot sustain himself in sea-foam, or in the white caps of the break
been drowned, but the boy held on with the grip of death, and
; I'm al
ill holding the senseless girl with one arm, was drawn up on deck, and receive
nto the cabin where her mother had just recovered from her swoo
ndred men were demanding the name of the young hero, praising him, offering to make up
ling of chains, the crowd swarmed off t