Show f f tl t l 1 l MADE USE OP A PIG how bow captain lao saved th the lives ot of Ms bl crew captain eben luce or of new england Is reputed to have been a seaman of great resources he never got in a pinch without finding some way out of it and one day when his vessel lay laboring in a gale right in sight of his bis own home be demonstrated his coolness and ingenuity in a manner that was never tried before if he could get a line to land there was some chance of saving the lives of his wife and his crew but it ft seemed impossible he fired one from a gun like those that are used by the lifesaving life saving service but it fell short A lifeboat life boat that be sent ashore was swamped in the surf and those who manned it were drowned no human being could swim in such a sea and it seemed to the neighbors who were watching from the shore that captain luce and all on board were doomed unless the storm subsided but captain eben had his wits with him and loosening the halyard from the he made one end fast to the hind bind leg of a pig he had in a pen on deck and threw the porker overboard the instincts instinct of 0 f self preservation and muscular strength enabled the pig to make the shore although for several minutes b was to tossed god backward and forward belp helplessly lessly by the breakers the crowd on the beach hauled in the halyard then a heavier rope which captain eben had lashed to it and finally a liaw hawser ser on which the whole ships was rescued |