A LIVING ROPE.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2180, 4 July 1890, Page 6

A LIVING ROPE.

A number of boys were skating and sliding in Yorkshire nearly 100 years ago. On a sudden the ice gave way almost in the middle of the lake, and one poor little fel'ow fell in. There was no house near where they could run for help; no ropes which they could throw to their struggling companion. The boys stood on the bank, with pale sorrowful faces, afraid to try to reach their friend, in case the ice should give way, and swallow them all up. But one boy suddenly remembered that although you cannot Btand a|board upright on thin ice without its going through, yet if you lay the same board flat on the ice it will ba quite safe. Not only that, but he knew that he could run along the board without fear of cracking the ice. It only took him a moment to remember all that • the next he spoke to his friends something after this fashion — "I will lie down flat on the ice near the edge, then one of you must come to my feet and push me along till you can lie down. If you all lie down ia that way,

and push the boy in front of you, we will make a line long enough to reach poor Eeuban." Thus takiDg the post of danger himself , the brave boy was able by his livinsj rope to reach his friend. He pulled him ou*, though he was not one moment too soon, for he was so exhausted with his efforts to keep his head above water that be would very soon have sunk, — Erom Little Folk 3 Magnzire.