Show ILL R U be wis was sickly but he WM was not afraid to die ailin in a shipwreck ll 11 flouti lo uti companion was a sickly chap said the ca captain etain of a lifesaving life saving crow crew lie ife wanted to follow the water lik like a all it other fletchers fletcherr Flet chers but something ailed il ed his hip and back he lie tried book larnin but his eyes gave out twice he saye alsto to me caan 1 be he bays says 11 1 I w ish I 1 could bo be of some use in the world lie ile had that kind of a spirit like billial water in his crippled little body DW 7 well john fletcher hie his brother owned the afa maria 1 W which aich runs for I 1 lumber um down to north carolina one voyage he took hie his wife an two children an bill along comin home the ilana rana run on this bar hero here one stormy night an was wits wrecked it was asso dark that we fired tile line eix six times before we pot got it to her tier when the cable was made fa fast 4 I 1 I 1 went out on the breeches buoy the tito schooner was goin it to 0 pieces so fast twant no use bryin to nieces atch thecae the car slie site bad ball parted aa an john fletcher at hill ifill an an three women wan was there on her at the tile starn n I 1 signaled tile crew to fetch tile lifeboat bo it the a wa was bremen tremendous d an anthe the night was blk black bl k aa as ink I 1 thought the men would never roach reach us alive but old dan was at the starn an lie fetched tier we rot got tile women omen into the boat an the tile children ch chi iLlren biren an then john took holt of rho cripple t to lift in him in in there woe wag room but for ohe one more an all they both saw it 11 no said bill y youve olive got a wife A ire an children im no use to anybody Y no john gripped bim an dr dragged him to the boat no time for ex cluni fin compliments but bill 8 slipped ii from him like an and ran back of th tho roast when WWII I 1 genf after him the sea was m abbing wae hinK over alio deck an I 1 thought it was empty I 1 crowded john aboard the life bot beat an they all got safe ashore in the breeches buoy 11 when morning came m a went out again a anthe an there bill tied to th the e mast anito n itte d dead ead thero there was a look on orl his hia hiance ace ce as asif if ool I 1 had a d eiven I 1 I 1 bin him something to do 40 an lie babion had done no it dyo know that an high seas that I 1 almost al ways think of the tile noble spirit shown by that poor cripple a mighty good example he lie set most of us NN e shall never forget him well good night 1 air I and strapp ing on his big lantern lie set out on hie life patrol along tile edge of the thundering orf surf |