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A canoe was instantly launched, and the hand of the drowning man was caught, but only half of his body was dragged from the maw of the monster, which followed the canoe until the water became so shallow that it could scarcely swim. The crest of the next billow was tinged with red as it rolled towards the shore.
"You was buried, for I followed yer; so how can you be here now a-talking to me?" "But don't you see?" "Yes, I do now. You got to know all about it, and you're an impostor; that's what you are!" "Oh, Jerry, you always were a fool!" cried Dick, angrily. "Don't you see that it was the poor fellow they found the drowning boy I tried to save?" "Then you didn't try to drown yourself, sir?"
He reached him just as John's strokes were becoming feebler and feebler; he was about to give up his unequal struggle with the waves. "Take hold of me," he said. "Have courage, and I will save you." John seized him with the firm grip of a drowning person, and nearly prevented him from striking out. But Mr.
Lost dignity is not a possession which can be restored at a moment's notice, and both Lady Bastable and the butler found the process of returning to normal conditions almost as painful as a slow recovery from drowning. A jacquerie, even if carried out with the most respectful of intentions, cannot fail to leave some traces of embarrassment behind it.
Wang seemed to think my insistence for I insisted, you know very stupid and tactless. But a drowning man clutches at straws. We were talking in such Malay as we are both equal to. "'Your fears are foolish, I said to him. "'Foolish? of course I am foolish, he replied. 'If I were a wise man, I would be a merchant with a big hong in Singapore, instead of being a mine coolie turned houseboy.
She was an excellent swimmer, but two R.A.M.C. men sprang overboard to her rescue, and I believe almost succeeded in drowning her in their efforts! This serves to show what an extremely touchy job it was, and one we had to perform in fogs or the early hours of a winter's morning when it was almost too dark to see anything.
The nearest village was two or three miles distant, and the weather was inclement. He concluded that it "was not worth while to go so far for such a trifle." That night a vessel was wrecked within sight of the station. A line could have been given to the crew if he had been able to use the mortar; but he had no powder. He saw the drowning men perish one by one, knowing that he alone was to blame.
"Villain," said I, shaking my clenched fist in his face, "to blow my brains out would make short work of me, and be soon over; death by drowning is as sure, and the agony prolonged: yet I tell you to your face, if you were to toss me over yonder cliff into the sea, I would not tell you where my companions are, and I dare you to try me!" The pirate captain grew white with rage as I spoke.
A gentleman, named Alexander Seton, put off in a boat, and saved him from drowning, and afterwards entertained him hospitably for many weeks at his house on the shore. Haussen saw that he was addicted to the pursuits of chemistry, but no conversation on the subject passed between them at the time.
An explanation of the non-freezing of the main Lake has been offered by several local "authorities" as owing to the presence of a number of hot springs either in the bed of the Lake or near enough to its shores materially to affect its temperature. But I know of few or no "facts" to justify such an explanation. I was assured that several who had tried had had narrow escapes from drowning.
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