The sea (microform) - its stirring story of adventure, peril and heroism (1880) (20625870931)

Title: The sea (microform) : its stirring story of adventure, peril & heroism
Identifier: cihm_17845 (find matches)
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Whymper, Frederick, b. 1838
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers; Voyages and travels; Ocean; Aventures et aventuriers; Voyages; Océan
Publisher: London; New York : Cassel, Petter, Galpin
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268 THE SEA. li man It is to Mr. Charles Reade, the distinguished novelist, poet, and playwright, that we owe ' true and accurate account of the heroic feats and sad calamity of James Lambert, a living Mr. Reade had read in the Glasgow Times of October 2nd, 1856, how, when a little » * boy was drowning in the Clyde, an elderly blind man would have dived in but for bis gp'and- daughter, who with a girl's affection and unreasoning fears, had clung to his knees and utterly spoiled his good intentions. The boy was drowned. The poor blind hero went home crying like a child, saying, " It was a laddie flung away; clean flung away." Mr. Rcade, after long and weary searching, found Lambert in a wretched lodging
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CAPTAIN WEBB 8 AKRIVAL AT CALAIS. in Calton, a suburb of Glasgow, and easily extracted from him a fund of anecdote, a part only of which can be presented here. The "first case" Lambert had attended to was a twenty-stone "drooning" baker, who gripped him tight to his breast, and nearly succeeded in drowning him. Lambert was then a youth of about fourteen. Another was of a poor old washerwoman who had overbalanced herself in the water, and who when saved wanted to go and pawn her tub that she might reward him. Instead of which her rescuer " clappit a shellin'" in her hand, and promised to ve\w&i the kindness each Saturday from his own meagre wages. ♦ The brochure which 5Ir. Rcade wrote with the view of raising a fund for poor Lambert is entitled, "A Hero and a Martyr. It was printed muinly for private circulation.

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