He adjusted the skirt of his coat in an effort to hide Abe's carpet-bag, his own canvas satchel, and a huge market-basket of good things which Blossy had cooked for the life-savers.

And the pleasant prospect of being shut in at the beach with the cast-iron Abraham and these husky life-savers for the remainder of the winter!

" But, though Havens had to wait for the return of the man who had gone off duty yesterday morning, still Abe had not put in an appearance when Samuel and the life-saver trudged down the trail through the woods to the bay.

" "The government life-savers, I s'pose you mean.

CAPTAIN (of 'The Bars' Life-Saving Station) BRADFORD (a Life-Saver) TONY (a Portuguese Life-Saver) MRS PATRICK (who lives in the abandoned Station) ALLIE MAYO (who works for her) SCENE:

CAPTAIN (of 'The Bars' Life-Saving Station) BRADFORD (a Life-Saver) TONY (a Portuguese Life-Saver) MRS PATRICK (who lives in the abandoned Station) ALLIE MAYO (who works for her) SCENE:

Door in this is ajar at rise of curtain, and through this door BRADFORD and TONY, life-savers, are seen bending over a man's body, attempting to restore respiration.

The captain of the life-savers comes into view outside the big open door, at left; he appears to have been hurrying, peers in, sees the men, goes quickly to them.

He also gained renown as a life-saver; for if it had not been for him many a venturesome lad would have ended his young life in the waters of the East River.

J.C.L. CONTENTS PREFACE LIST OF DRAWINGS THE COD-FISHER THE SONG OF THE SEA THE WIND'S SONG THE LIFE-SAVER "THE EVENIN' HYMN" THE MEADOW ROAD THE BULLFROG SERENADE SUNDAY AFTERNOONS

O'RAFFERTY LITTLE BARE FEET A RAINY DAY THE HAND-ORGAN BALL "JIM" IN MOTHER'S ROOM SUNSET-LAND THE SURF ALONG THE SHORE AT EVENTIDE INDEX OF FIRST LINES LIST OF DRAWINGS THE LIFE-SAVER, "He's a hero born and bred, but it hasn't swelled his head.

* THE LIFE-SAVER (Dedicated to the Men in the United States Life-saving Service.)

THE LIFE-SAVERS AND THEIR APPARATUS

When the keen winter winds whip through the beach grasses on the dunes and throw spiteful handfuls of cutting sand and spray; when the great waves pound the beach and the crested tops are blown off into vapour, then the life-saver patrolling the beach must be most vigilant.

Climbing up into the rigging, the sailors waited for the vessel to strike the beach, and the life-savers put for shore again to get the apparatus needed for the new situation.

The beach apparatus has received the greatest attention from inventors, since that part of the life-savers' outfit is depended upon to rescue the greatest number.

Over hummocks of sand and wreckage, across little inlets made by the waves, in the face of blinding sleet and staggering wind, the life-savers dragged the beach wagon on the run.

At last the line stopped uncoiling and the life-savers knew that the shot had landed somewhere.

One after the other the crew were taken ashore in this way, the life-savers hauling the breeches-buoy forward and back, working like madmen to complete their work before the wreck should break up.

The life-savers' work is not over when the crew of a vessel is saved, for the apparatus must be packed on the beach wagon and returned to the station, while the shipwrecked crew is provided with dry clothing, fed, and cared for.

[Illustration: LIFE-SAVERS AT WORK The two men in the center are burying the sand-anchor; of the two at the right, one is ready with the crotch support the hawser and the other carries the breeches-buoy; the other three men are hauling the line which has already been shot over the wrecked vessel.

One minute later an excited life-saver was shut in the box of the public telephone, gritting his teeth at the inanity of the central operator who insisted on giving him "A-1224" instead of "A-1234," the Hotel Wellington.

It's a life-saver.

This Plan miscarried, because all the Men wanted to hear Rag Time played by Josephine, the Life-Saver.

How he'd been blew up in mines; squizzled down a mountain on a snow-slide; chawed by a bear; caught under a felled tree; sunk on a Missouri River steamboat, and her afire, so you couldn't tell whether to holler for the life-savers or the fire-engine; shot up by Injuns and personal friends; mistook for a horse-thief by the committee, and much else, closing the list with his right bower.