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Updated: April 30, 2025
Nay, verily! He goes home to Blunderton, stirs up the people, hires the town-hall, gets the chief magistrate to take the chair, and forms a Branch of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution the Blunderton Branch, which, ever afterwards, honourably bears its annual share in the expense, and in the privilege, of rescuing men, women, and little ones from the raging seas.
Going to live with the old folk now at Blunderton, far away from the sea; high up among the mountains." "Hm!" grunts Jones. "Do they help to float the lifeboats at Blunderton?" "The lifeboats? No, of course not; never think of lifeboats up there." "Some of you think of 'em down here, though," remarks Jones. "Do you help the cause in any way, sir?" "Me? No. Never gave a shilling to it."
The supposed Blunderton case is founded on fact. During a lecturing tour one man somewhat enthusiastic in the lifeboat cause preached the propriety of inland towns starting Branches of the Lifeboat Institution. Upwards of half a dozen such towns responded to the exhortation, and, from that date, have continued to be annual contributors and sympathisers.
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