Show NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH youth owes life to fellow workmans presence of mind A new tenement of houses in edinburgh now in course of erection was the tho scene the other day dar of a remarkable incident the building looked as if completed but the plumbers were busily engaged toti touching ching up the roots roofs and gutters at the top of the house an apprentice was working lower down at the channel of the eaves of the house was another plumber hammering avay and whistling the while fl when the an aD prentice slipped his hold and sliding headlong down the slates looked as if it he was to be dashed to pieces among the refuse some fifty feet below passersby involuntarily shuddered fortunately however he lie came right in the direction of his fellow follow workman on the edge of the slates but that individual hammering away did not notice anything amiss till the young man was just on the brink of the house being unable at the instant to clutch the lad with his hands he plunged his head forward and grabbed him by the trouser leg with his teeth it was only for a few seconds that the apprentice was thus suspended hanging as he lie was almost bodily over the house but even the shock might have killed a stronger man |