Show SAVED LIPS LIFE j 4 But the Hros Efforts W re Directed ta S Saving ving ills His Own Skates il ck Sun SunI V I along 1011 the river near not l lang ng ap ago said ohn Gilbert lIbert man and saW a boy bay skating on the river white while another boy sat op the bank watching him himI I had hed J just st driven pASt men I heard crash and a yell and looking back saw that the boy who had been n lug ha had broken rough the ice and was wag holding onto on to the edge Of the h hole le lehe he had gone through shrieking for tor hl help lP anti nd making Ineffectual efforts to pull himself out of the water The Th Theother other boy was as hurrying to his hie a assist assistance t ance I 1 topped stopped my horse bonte out of the sleigh and ran as fast as aI could toward the scene of the mishap for tor I Idid did not think the e second boy who wu was mush moan and slight COUld possibly save eave hi ills Before I r reached the spot tile the little fellow had by what I could e ee was as a desperate pf ef effort fort en In pulling the other front from the hole kole and dragging him to safety Tb The 1 was as so eo nearly ll hi by the efforts irot he be had made to keep from being car carrIed be beneath eath the Ice that he Wail wag unable to rise but lay pasting panting and only half con conscious on the I toe lee It was plain that but for the coming of his hie little comrade be I WOUld have goa goad down before I could havE gOt to hits him I 1 CUrled carried him tb lb the sleigh wrapped blip up in my robe lObe and with the other I boy started lor his home which they said mid was a pIle mIte and a half de down the roaD I You are a noble fellow said saidI I II I to he e boy boT who had pulled the other cut ut or Ute the wat r Do you know knew you saved ved thIs bo boys 8 life by yoUr prompt Jt fleeS f fHe He H sold lei he be knew It 4 net you afraid that You I BlIght aught break oak through the Ice yourself I IDd anti Dd lose lese your oWn life 1 I never thought bt about It at all said the boy bay I What W did you think said Id J I ad admiring miring the thi bo boys s unselfish disregard of what the consequences ml might ht have to you were so 90 nobly risking your own on life Ufe to save sae I your JOUr little comrade en saId lie he I thought that sammy tny e nt never DeYer git out o 0 there help dud I that if he I git out o 0 there hed be took Ute the tee ice and and may never be found of him agI agITh Th b boy paused and looked at Sam Sammy nay my had hM comae COIRe around all right by tbt bitt was shivering In b his wet s Titan eD J resumed 1 hed be took down under I Ot the r o find drowned and maybe Ot noW OtIn In ne never be found of him And tie he had my skates on onI 55 I 1 dont knoW whether Sammy sot got his Jacket warmed by anything more strenuous than the glo glow of the kitchen stove after I let the boys down at their door or er pot DOt for I drove right on en mae mus musing lag ing on the fearless s u unselfish nature ot of innocent eh childhood in the hemlOCk belt |