THE NERVY MAN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8910, 9 November 1907, Page 6

THE NERVY MAN.

While some hundred of bathers were frolicking in the surf at Boudi one day recently a young lady who had ventured some * yards from the rest was heard to call plaintively: "Save me! save me!" She was swimmiug hard, and plainly battling with the waves for dear life. A brown ami athletic-looking young man responded to her appeal by covering the intervening ten yards with a powerful trudgeon stroke. As the crowd on the beach cheered, he enclevoured to drag the girl in, but the task was too much for him, and to save his own life lie relinquished his hold and swam to shore, lauding in an exhausted condition. A second bather who had followed close behind him also tried to get the young lady in, but he was forced to desist. The Bondi lifesavers, who were at the other end of the beach, charged towards the spot with the life-lines. The crowd was worked up into a frenzy of excitement, and the girl seemed about to fiiuk, when a "nervy" man, who was fully attired, rushed into the water, reached the girl, and remarked, ' If I were you, I'd stop swmimiug and walkout." With a surprised look, She followed his advice. The water was about three feet deep.