COURAGE IN YOUTH.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2878, 15 June 1882, Page 2

COURAGE IN YOUTH.

A lady, in London, writing to a friend in Auckland, relative to the foundering of the.ship Famenoth on the coast of Cornwall, makes the following reference to the courage and presence of mind of a little girl, who was a passenger on board the vessel at the time of the disaster:—“We quote : “ Three of Shaw and Savill’s clerks.* were on the ship at the. lime of the accident, and, .they caimot say enough in little Pearl’s praise. They say they never saw anyone behave better in a a time of danger. The poor child was from 6 o’clock on Saturday night till 7 o’clock on Sunday evening without a morsel to eat, as the ship foundered just as the people were going to breakfast. One of the clerks came to enquire after her a day or to after, and he told me, amongst other things, that some man put a biscuit in Pearl’s hand, and said, * Eat that you poor little thing,’ but .she replied ‘ No, thank ybu, I’ll wait and see if I am to be drowned first.’ We all feel so proud of the child’s pluck. Some of the women, and even the men, quite lost their heads, and had to bo taken from the sinking vessel by main force.” The child, Pearl, spoken of, is Miss Little, 7 years old, the daughter of Captain Little, R.N., and granddaughter of Mrs Hamlin, of Epsom. •’