When a man or a boy has the terror of drowning pressed in upon his heart, he is usually a most unreasonable being; and will even clasp his intended rescuer about the neck, and prevent him from carrying out his plans that might have worked well only for this blundering.

" The other took him at his word, and commenced to rattle on, saying all manner of things, simply to direct his rescuer to the spot.

Both girls realized the gravity of the situation, and they knew that a word from them might distract the rescuers from the work in hand.

"God'l'mighty!" exclaimed the rescuer.

Furious barks succeeded its first barks inviting the rescuers to come.

"No," he said, "I don't deny that I wrote it; but" "And perhaps mademoiselle herself will deny that she asserted to Monsieur Tellier that she did not know her rescuer?

Hours passed, and just as a relief expedition was starting to search for him, he came back, his hat gone, his uniform torn into rags, but with one of the men with him and the other left on a fallen tree with a path blazed to lead the rescuers to him.

Another foreign observer tells of a Fijian woman who loaded her rescuer "with abuse, and ever afterwards manifested the most deadly hatred towards him."

There he married his rescuer.

After having wept and sighed and poured out complaints for his miseries, after having overwhelmed his rescuer, Colmenares, with thanks and almost rolled at his feet, Nicuesa, when the fear of starvation was removed, began, even before he had seen the colonists of Uraba, to talk airily of his projects of reform and his intention to get possession of all the gold there was.

Presently he came to a well and from the depths of the well a man who had fallen into it cried to him for help; so he went and pulled him up; but no sooner had the man reached the surface than he turned and pushed his rescuer down the well and ran away.

All speculation aside, her problem was how to rescue her rescuer.

Here, it is said, the distracted lover came upon his lady and his brother, who had at that moment effected her escape, and not recognising the youth, rushed upon the pair with drawn sword, only to discover too late his terrible mistake, and lose both brother and bridefor the lady received a mortal wound in trying to save her rescuer.

They had a big banquet and ball there for Governor Stockton, I'm told, after the procession and speeches in the Plaza, and another the next year for Governor Kearny; the first Relief Committee met here, called by Brannan, Howard and Vallejo, to send rescuers to the Sierras for the survivors of the Donner Party.

"It is not a good time for the liberator to submit important questions to the liberated while they are engaged in shooting down their rescuers.

" "I suppose those boys will be more stuck up than ever now," said Jack to Bill Bender, as, having perfunctorily thanked their rescuers, they started for home with the almost weeping Sam.

He figured that both men had been long enough in the water to have their weapons well soaked, so that they would be in no condition to threaten their rescuers.

As the women and children frantic with joy rushed to welcome their rescuers the stern-set faces of the Highlanders changed to joy and gladness; hunger, thirst, wounds, wearinessall were forgotten as they clasped hands with those for whom they had fought and bled.

rah!" yelled the rescuers as they charged upon the freshmen.