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Show SCOUT SAVES COMPANION On the day of the following rescue, Harold Real, th I rteen-y ear-old eeout of Westerly, N. Y was la swimming with five companions when one of the boys became exhausted while beyond Ms depth, and saak beneath the sur-fuee. sur-fuee. Ileal saw his chum's predicament predica-ment and started to swim towards the Im).v. who had come to the top and gone under the second time. When be came to the surface Beal grabbed him by the hair and started to pull him toward the shore. Another lad of the party attempted to help Beal, but wus pulled under by the struggles of the half drowned boy, and Beal had to complete the rescue alone. When the rseuer and the rescued reached land the latter was resuscitated by methods (might the troop In their life saving wt-rk and soon the lad was able to go to his home without assistance. Scout Ileal Ir an extremely modest hero and the story of the rescue would never have been told were It not for some of the witnesses who Insisted the boy's Lerolsin be made known to bis scout loaders. t. |