The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-02

body. And I Rat Az awfu' affront init
the bargain they cast it in my teetl
that I was partial, and save the ricl
afore the poor. Moo I let naebody
droon. but my bargain was with thu
club to save them first; so behooved t.
keep the contract. Aweel, then, die
nae execution there worth speaking O.
the thing I'm coming tae was ct the
bend OF the Clyde they ca the peat bog.
| number wAs eAesihg on the river, anG
the ice began TO heave an shake wi the
high tide. So chased all the boys af
wi my belt, and warned the men but
some folk Wilma be warned by me-
The ice breaks Under a laboring man.
and IN he goes, and the tide sucked
hum under in . moment. I ran to the
place as fast as conid and under thu
ice after him. Aweel, I soomed, and
soomed, and did nae catch him. till
had nae chance to come back alive, if ]
did ua turn. But Just as 1 turned my
feet struck him. Then my HART got ur
again, I grippid hir, and dragged
him back vi me, and soomed and
soomed for my ain life the moo, as weel
as his. Eth, mon, I was amaist gone.
But I wadna loose him. Twas bath
live, or bath dee. Tn just givin' in
when see the light O. the hole, max
fort, and get him DOT, and on the ice,
and dinna it keep breakin directly with
the pair o us, and sac we go fioonderin'
and smashing, till we are helpit ashore.
Nor I'll tell ye farce. I'm hauldine
the chiel prisoner by the collar, and
shaking t'other neif at them a.. Ye
ken wanted to feicht on them. for
saying riskit myself mair for the rich
than the puir. But a. could saw was.
'wow-wow-wow'- brethe wadns
come back to my body. Aud while j
was wow-wow-wowing, at them. and
gripping my coptive like a mollyfactor.
DINA he turn roond and thank me in q
brief discoorse vara ceevil. Eth. mon.
covered at him; I Tossed him an
rolled away backwards to glover at
him. He could haze repeated his cate
cheesm, and I could only baash an
blather. The man was q bet er man
than me; for he had been longer in.
Oh, declared that on the bank, sumo
as ever I could speak"
THE GROWING FEAT. OF ALI.
come now to the browning feat oil
this philanthrupic and adventurous life
and I doubt my power to describe it.
I halt before it, like one that feels weak,
and mountain to climb for such q
feat. I believe, was never done in the
wAter by mortal man. and never will
again while earth shall last.
James Lambert worked in Somer.
ville's mill. Like most OF the hands.
he must cross the waters to get home.
For that purpose a small ferryboat was
provided; it lay at little quay near the
mill. One Andrew had charge of it
ashore, and used to shove it off with q
lever, and receive it on it's return. He
often let more people 20 into It than
Lambert thought safe, and Lambert had
demonstrated, and had even said :
"Yeu hae an occident some day that
|syeu rue but snce, and that will be a.
your life" Andrew, in reply, told, him
10 mind his own business.
Well, one evening James Lambert
wanted to get away in the first boat
load. This was somehow connected
with his having bought a new hat per-
haps he wished to avoid the crowd OF
ork-people-here I am not very clear.
However, he watched the great wheel,
and the moment it began to waver, pre-
vious to stopping, he ran for his hat,
4 and darted down stairs. But, as he
worked in an upper story, full a dozen
pt into the boat before him. He told
ndrew tor put of, but Andrew would
b till the boat should be full and
Q ION it was crammed, James Lambert
en said il was q shame of him to let
. many on board. This angered the
n, and, when the boat was 80 crowded
y - her gunwale was not far above
Q Fer, he shoved her violently off into
ddeyly, and said words which, il
> 1heG mot prayed God to forgive them
J. his world, will perhaps hang heavy
= md his neck in the next.
q To heIl-ye beggars !" he cried.
n This rough launching made the over
= In boat Wobble. The women got
4htened, and before the boat had
- twenty yards she upset in dark,
I Avater, ten feet deep.
= vas night
- before the boat coupit athegither,
= . Aeu to me that could for they
3 skenned me, in the water, them that
q pa hand o. me, had hand o. them
y u had hand O. me, and they arried
n7oon like Iced"
= Pw tits an old saying, and a true
q that "After-wit is everybody e
= " We're I to relate at once wha!
= UPS Lambert accomplished hundreds
- ID imagine they could have done
10 tnma. To correct that self-decep-
tand make men appreciate this hero
:, c3ctly, shall stop here ami entreat
= meaders, for the instruction of their
!. oNninda to lay down this narrative
hut their eyes, and ask themselves
70 va possible for mortal man to
y ee drowning himself, and to save
Who we're drowning him. You
peen that it cost him the skin of
: 8er TO get clear of q single baker.
a. ne was clutched and pinned by at
- -FOUR desperate drowning creatures,
e Hons in their wild despair, and
sn3e1ght OF twelve people more hang
- nShe united weight of them all car
- nddown the strong swimmer like q
!; st? in sock.
INT, when yeve twa feet i the grave
u VT gmd wtks hard. I didna strug-
- e Y y ~ nae MARI use than to
:. w3 VI Ink. Just STRENGTHENED
~ mYeii oot iIke corp, and let them tax
= " On % - bottom O. the Clyde /;
l. ~ tnGe Ast.de up right, an waited |;
- Anned 9epuir sauls would droon
20 e ne sna ! saw just ae wee wee
Ia Snce g save 0em yet. Ye shall IN
:. o9tonos slrr hat when folk are droon-
!. tney dinne settle doom till the water
- ~ tneH lsn9s and drives the air DOT,
Aqrst they wsser up and down at sair-
tse intervals. Aweei, sir. I waited for
10 tF on NE grind. was the only ane
e. gtnded YEN obsairve. A slight up.
,e wsd movemsnt commenced. I took
ae adantage nd sied viient sprane vii
q 2, infect against the bottom, snd Wi me
,,e closing my tims, up we a. ame. NV
~ a9s were gappit but I could strike
e5 % wi my fset, and befoas ever we
"a raphed the surface I dashed DOT like a
~ ddvil for the quay. Aweel. sir. WI ali
Re t4uld do, sc didna wend abpne a ward,
~ z hsy be ayard and han and dooa
e, a. 81 CARED me liks Iced. ! straucht-
40 eS myself as We sank, and ernnded.
"A Itdes my time and when hey are in.
re ching upward I strikes frathe ernpd:
=, ahis time msir slantinefovsrd the
eT ~. That hslpt us, anelin a dozen
! Whit strokes We nay be gained twa
no yals this tint Tim doH like Iced
ne Pias the sane gaze aglu. up and
doc again. And NO, 81 there was
to sonthing that turned sairaeainst us
11g buthen theiewas sonethi . for Ms. to
IL bOiare IT, ltwaa Al ;,stlo IL. -