New-York tribune., 1874-11-25


docs Mr.. Lambert live herei" said ], for
form.
He replied civilly, al am James Lambert.
What is your wull with mel"
"Mr. Lambert, have come from some dis
tance to have talk with yOu-about your ex-
ploits in saving lives"
"Aweel SIR. I'll be very happy to hae
crack wi ye. Wife, give the gentleman chair.
When / was seated, he said, "We are in q
litter the day; but yell excuse it,"
saw no litter and did not know what he
meant. Before be could explain, young man
called for him, no doubt by appointment; and
Lambert begged me to excuse him for mo-
ment; he had a weekly pension, and they would
not pay it after three O'clock butit was not far,
and he would return directly. He then left me
seated between the two women. Hooked hard
at the young woman. She never moved, and
seemed quite stupid or stupefed. looked at
the table on her side of the room, and won
dered what was under the linen cloth. There
seemed to be prominence or two, such as
objects of unequal hight would cause, and
fancied it must be the best teapot, and other
china, covered to keep off the dust.
The young woman was repellent, so turned
|
"Ay,n said she, "he has been a curious mon
in his tme-a mony a great faitour (C) he
did-and mony good suit he destroyed that
l had to pay for"
This last sentence being uttered earnestly,
and its predecessor alphabetically, coupled with
the stress on the a." gave me the measure of
the womans mind. However, tried her again.
"Did you see any of his exploits7"
"Na, ma; was aye minding my wark at
hame. saw leetle o his carvings on"
/ said no more; but remembered Palissy's
wife, and other egotistoal mediocres; and
turned to the young woman; but she seemed
unconscious of my voice or my presence.
From this Impenetrable turned, in despair,
to the covered table; tried to see below the
cover with my eagle eye and had just settled
positively it was the china tea-service, when,
to my great relief, James Lambert returned,
and conversation took the place of idle specu-
lation.
We soon came to an understanding, and
asked him to give me some Details and to be-
gin at the beginning.
"Aweel, sirr," said he, the first case ever
I had was baker-they cat case We ken
| the moo; aw thing is a case-an awful fat man
he was. l was aboOt fourteen or fifteen then,
but gey guild sooner (EO. Aweel, SIR, me
and Rab Rankin, and John Murdoch, and
hantle mar lads, went doom to the bathing
place, an We were divairting oorselves in the
water, when the baker strips and comes out
on the deal. Moo yell understood there was
shallow water and deep, and the deep was at
the far end o the deal. They ca it the Do
minie's Hole fra schulemaster wha was
CO bfo
baker comes oot to the vara eend o. the deal,
and dives in heed first, as if Clyde belanged
to him-ha ha ba! He DINA come up for
while, and l said to the other callants
(D 'Hcch, sirs, yen see bonny diver
Presently up he comes painting, and baashing
and finging his arms; and doom he goes
again with bath cen glowering. 'Maircy on
u.s., cries ane, 'the mons drooning.' However,
he comes up again baashing and spluttering.
/ was ready for him, and just swan fore
recht him, and look him by th arm. That
will let We see what senseless cauf / was. l
suld haze gone and flung him ae end of my
gallows, or my naepkin, CO., and tOwed him
in; but, insteed Of that, he gat haud o. me
and grippit me tight to his breest, and took
me doom with him. Moo, tell me, sir-y' are a
sooner yOursePW
said eyes"
"What was our lives worth, the pair7 Him
twanty stane mon, and me a laddy?"
"Not much indeed, unless you could slip
away from him."
| GAY, but could ma he huggit me till him.
| Awee, srr if he was wild, was desperate.
| | fang my heed back and gat my knees up to
his breast and after my knees my feet, and l
gied the awfu'est spang with my feet against
his breast, and got clear a. but the skin o.
my forefnger that l left in his hond. l
raised to the surface and called to the boys
to maxi chain. 1 was afeared to dive for
him. But by Guides maircy he came up vance
mair, just to tax leave O Scotland. l got
ahnt him and gave him a sar crack on the
heed, drove him forud, followed him up Wi a
push, and then the lads took hands and won
to him, and pulled him to the deal, and i
soomed ashore, and l hadna been there a
minute when | swOoncd Ieicht way"
GLOW was that" l asked.
81 think it was partly the pain but maistly
faintheartedness at sight o my finger stream
ing VII bluid and the skin away. When /
came to myself the baker had put on his claes
and gaed AVA"
"What, without word to his preserver7"
Say"
Didn't he give you anythingi"
"Deil bawbee. But there was two gentle
men saw the affair, and gied me fifteen shell
lin. l went hame sucking my sair finger; and
my mther ged me an aw-fu hiding for spoil
ing my clothes. She took me by the lug (H),
and made me cry murder"
"Fine sympathetic creatures the women in
these parts,D said l. "crcumterens acriter
ocuios,, as my friend Livy hath it, and wither-