Show CAPT TOM WOOLLEY well yes sir the young lady was a beautiful swimmer never seen a young lady as could swim out like she could caan tom bolley Ool ley shed used to say to me 1 I just loe the water she come here every ry year she said she never could take to anywhere like the coast of Cori cornwall iva 11 but after the last year she dover dever come again its as if 1 billo bill o city m yso soul must have give her a distaste of the cornish fok like well true what aliat you say sir pit there aint no sea anywhere like tho the sea here in cornwall cornall it breaks as you way may see it nil all 0 0 green as emerald round the stacks and skerries sherries sk erries off lands land i end and the lizard see it breaking yonder sometimes in line fine white foam most as high as a lighthouse round they grai granite lito peaks lind anil you find nothing more beautiful not if it was painted in oils by they artist gents at newlyn New lyu the channel well the channel come to think 0 it but a muddy river lu in the manner of speaking with the seine and the avon flooding it all with dirt and defuse the north sea no nor the north sea aln mall t much better neither through being filled with yellow clay by tile the months mou thao 0 thames and rhine and gium ber I 1 know knonz em cm all your cart as I 1 11 have are sailed in con coasting sting craft man an boy this fifty year an more an being bred myself at lymo lyme regis in dorset an a muddier sea rould want than that though its me that says it as to say it belying my own honio it if I 1 may make bold to put it so ii which la Is as tidy i 1 little town as any in the country but the open atlantic antle where it rolls right in all blue and green and clear as aa C crystal 4 a 1 0 on n t them bell I 1 cornish rocks wily why there aint no water like it for pleasure pleasa of swimming in the british isles not till a man comes round again to caithness and sutherland our joe bl him im as they calls the fisherman poet lic he says it reminds him or of a good womans comans heart it does you look right down into the depths as far as you see and its all transparent arid and its all pure an innocent the sea in cornwall the young ladys name I 1 was speak in of was noe she was a miss irce 0 london but through knowing 0 her so intimate like we always called her b by v her given name miss noe she was at home with the children you see and my missus was fo fonder U der of her lic r than of any other folks lis as ever took our lodgings same as she sha might be of your good lady sir beg bogging ging your pardon she was a fine built 3 oung woman too was miss noo see her ter clamber up the rocks say she was a goat see her swim a agin in the waves say slie she was a seal see her tell the little ones stories by tile the rocks at nights say she was one 0 these book writers as it might light be yourself sir fine upstanding young lady indy too with a color in her check and a spring in her step walking free acro across s fiill alfill y moors be same as a s it if they belonged to her well it ion long before we lie perceived miss noe was pretty good friends with a gentleman up to bron ns mr moore from exeter ile he was a nice young doctor come to axy wynance notice for his holiday and when them two went out walking together with her father and mother hanging banging about like for company as Is tile the way with parents a finer young couple never set eyes on at the end of a fortnight my wife 6 bays a ys to me tom says the slie it aint mr moore no more with our young lady its plain alex tills this morning ills name being Alexi alexander inder it was alex tor for short as la Is the new fashion now though when I 1 was young it was till all alle alic or else sandy an a good thin thing too says 1 I por for it a young lady like miss noe had ought to 0 marry one as li 13 her natural equi equal says I 1 not meaning in birth alone ns as Is a thing I 1 jont dont hold with nor yet in mone money v as there aint no counting upon poll but a tine fine upstanding young lady to toy my mind deserves to be married to 1 a I fine eric oung loung fellow or the country get its soldiers and sailors crom and handsome couple make 1 bays my missus being fond of miss soe noe well one of the days mr moore alex he be went n cut out swimming off the rocks 1 by y the coe and miss noe phe he was ashore sitting high on oil tho tha cliff reading it a book or something but every now and again my wife sees her raise her head and louk look out to sea an ans lou foum like after the heads bonds bobbins bobbing about like buoys in tile the water at last up she jumps and runs down to the cottage nil all breathless I 1 could see in a minute her heart was in ILI her mouth 0 0 caan tom slie she says caan tom do look out at alex iles swimming over there nil an it seems to me hes in some sort of trouble ione lo 10 e having eyes as can call see sec bet battern tern a binocular 1 well I 1 gets down my telescope an ail I 1 fixes it 11 him lie ile was a mile out to seft a black speck on oil the water I 1 gets him well fixed sure enough there lie he was throwing his arms it up wild antl trying to make signs to the shore for help Is it cramp says the young lady dont you believe it says I 1 ther vj a deal more nonsense talked about cramp in swimming than there need be A roan man cant swim forever says 1 I tired out what hat I 1 calls it says saya 1 I and fired out mr alex was sure enough by the look of him 0 tom says tile the young young lad lady will III you save him wringing her ber hands in a way that might melt a stone let alone a christian I 1 was half way down to my iny bo boat at by that time save hirn him says I 1 la Is it saving of him bless your heart if lie he no friend of yourn at all as nian man to man mail id save eave him billo bill o m says 1 seeing bill on the shore come an 3 help me says 1 I theres a gentleman drowning Drown ding says bill runt running ilu down and putting out come on says bill im with mth you ills name naine being billo bill o my yeou coul along of ills his having been such a favorito when lie he was young with all the young women well we put off and rowed roved bill in taking k one of the sweeps as is ovir our name tor for them long oars and me the other after a while it struck me we heading beading outward I 1 looked up and s saw tw and we was most turned toward shore again id pulled the boat around on bill which I 1 understand he being then it a stronger man nor me to pull not but what when I 1 was in my best days id have pulled a boat against any man mail in england bill says I 1 sharp youre not a pulling lie ile looks up at me rather odd mate he quiet like im no fool now what are you a rowing for the young fellow or the money ruu full pull man I 1 shouts out pull pull I 1 toll tell you the gent lemans Irown drown ding miss noes noea young gentleman MR D lie he pulls a stroke or tv avio 0 quite f feeble ceble ills heart in it then I 1 loses my temper billo bill o DI says 1 I am I 1 capla of tills this here craft or are you for unless you pull harder I 1 dont want no strong language here but as sure as my name Is caan tom ooola y ill wring your ugly neck deck for you lie ile holds holda up his sweep and says he be 0 0 Is that your garne game says lie he an do you propose to compensate me it in flashed right across me whit what he meant bill you blackguard says 1 I do you moan mean to tell me aud and a wait man there a have you no common humanity says I 1 bristling up that think of live five pound afore i fellow creature fire pound Is a good bit better nor thirty loo bob lill says bill looking up at ac me sullen like well sir ill say it to your face fa cc though your own father Is a county councilor I 1 always thought that one as bad a law as the county could make but law it Is all tile the same and abl there re aint no helping it its 15 5 reward for bringing in a dead corpse fin an its only thirty bob for bring a man mail alive a as s 3 boj ai save from bill o my 0 firul UI says 1 I raising my sweep abeln being that angry an gry with the man inai that id have knocked him over the head as soon as I 1 would a rat all you row or shall I 1 brain you just it at that minute te my eyes went nent towards the shore and if there miss noe not wringing her hands now but plunging into tile the sea clothes and ami all though a lady with 1 I 1 fit skirts an swimming for dear life out to tile the bo bout 1 I 1 to help bell me I 1 up with my voice an shouts Bh outs come alou along miss alss noe you puts tile the me men to shame blessings 01 on you for a brae girl she was sn imming that did well I 1 rows towards her and helps her aboard into the boat and in she jumps all dripping drippin but taking no more notice of it bloss bless you than if water was wa a feather bed to her and sin she seizes tile the oar billo bill o m yso woul dil work and she cries out to tile me agolli agonized zed like row on crall bolley Oo Ool lloy leY for heavens sake row on alex ales Is a brownd lag ing well I 1 going to carry a supercargo as aa you may say to weight ight tile the boat not yet it a p passenger as se D ger for nothing so to lighten the burden I 1 just ups lips N with it bill om o m yso and I 1 clasps un round the waist being it a older man nor him but heaven bo be praised a strong one was took by surprise se too much to struggle an I 1 heaves un tin over afore ho he knowel where here he was and makes 11 1 I jonah of him hill ile he come up lip spluttering splutter ing being the worst swimmer for a 1 seafaring meu men a as ever 1 I met with thorp there says rays I 1 hitting out at hini him with the blade 0 my sweep see how you like it yourself 1 says 1 I theres 15 a coln beggin tor for whoever pulls out your ugly corpse tor for nobody aint abut going to trouble about you living and off we tw two rows MISS noe in ili her dripping clothes and leaves bill there I 1 to 0 sink or swim ac accord cordin ln as he was minded A quarter 0 a mile out we comes up to a 11 sailing boat wind was nor cast or might a been a pint nearer east mayhap may liap and a sall sail before the wind could bear straight down upon where mr alex was ln miss noe she bile stood up and calls out to the men over yonder site she cries showing sho wing the way with her hand quick quick hes I 1 drown dro wilding ding in a second they sees seca and without one word off afi they ey goes bluffing that sud dent I 1 would nta a believed it if I 1 seen it and they flies before cac in e halt hn if I a gale over in the direction of the gentleman well he was war done up tip for swimming through not having another kick left in him ahyou as you may say but blit lie he was I 1 able to float on his back and might I 1 have floated an hour more if I 1 so be as the chill of the water numb mat him arid and send him to the bottom they come up to him and pulled un tin in ili I 1 could see them a pulling of hire him but whether it was thirty bob or five pounds worth I 1 rightly make out for certain Is it alive or dead says the young lady well says 1 I he d look rather ilina says 1 I as is natural when youve been lying so long in the water but I 1 think its alive anyhow wed better row back and get your things dried miss 0 no says she crying 1 I cant go back till I 1 know caan woolley Oo olley says she ive ate must row on and meet them well I 1 quite like it owing to the gentleman perhaps having on which aliss noe thought of still tills being a matter 0 life arid and death where such things cant be allowed to count I 1 rows on to meet them about a hundred yards off I 1 stands up ill ind and shouts so as she understand der stand Is it a A five fire pound jol job mate or a thirty bobber and the young gentleman himself lifts himself up lip in reply with one of the fis hermens jerseys on an a sail v rapped round nil 1111 and lie he shouts at the lie top of his hia voice warin waving his hand alive alive noe I 1 wanted to turn then but bless you there no keeping 1 back that young lady afore I 1 knowel where I 1 was avas it at the sound of his voice ashes stood up in the boat and jumped off the seat ind was swimming for dear life again to the sailing boat where her young gentleman was a setting ile he was most dead when she got there hed just had strength 0 mind to hold up lip till lie he could shout to her and then lie he falls back numb like c and white as death till they gets hi him ashore mashore again there nillo billo nill bill o m yso was standing spluttering splutter ing and shivering looking blue with cold and saying n as how bow id done him out 0 five pounds or thirty shillings through throwing of him overboard they took the young gentleman up to ills his lodgings and gave garo him the regular thing hot blaiki blankets ets an such an ail brandy nn an by the end 0 tile the day he was pretty well right again but the young lady she so much as ketch a cold with it an afore they left tills this place him and her was married an ail when ball o mr yso soul come to hear bear that her father and mother wanted to give ten pounds apiece to the men in the boat an me he be was just that mad you could I 1 a hoard heard his bis language five fire houses off and not choice language either cassells Caa sells magazine |