“Save me, save me !” she cried as her head rose above water and she grasped a plank floating by. “I beg your pardon," he replied from the bank, “but I want it to be distinctly understood that I am a married man with seven children." “Yes, yes ; save me !" she shrieked.
"Then there’ll be no falling into my arms and calling me preserver, will there ?” "No, no ; only save me !”
"All right, I’ll try,” he responded as he threw off his coat. "You see,” he said just before diving in, "I was caught once before and that’s how I came to be married. It makes me a bit particular.”
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Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 48, 20 July 1908, Page 8
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