BRAVE AND READY

New Zealand Tablet, 20 March 1913, Page 62

BRAVE AND READY

Some years ago, a company of geologists were examining some rocks between Aberystwith and Llanrhystyd, in Wales, and were making their way along a narrow ledge of projecting rock, on the face of a cliff, about a hundred and twenty feet above the level of the sea. As they rounded a projecting angle the rock on which the last man stood gave way. He was whirled round, with his face to the sea, but with instant presence of mind grasped the ledge at his side with one hand, and extended the other to the man in advance, who happened to be his uncle. The latter grasped it, and thus held him suspended for fully five minutes, having only six inches of standing ground. This was a breathless pause, during which the uncle gazed upon a rock, some ninety feet below on which the young man was doomed to be dashed, t ‘ Tom/ he said at length, with perfect calmness, there is but one way for it. I’ll save you, or we will die together. Loose your hold of the rock. ’ ‘ Yes, uncle,’ said the young man, faintly, as he obeyed. Then the uncle sprang into the air, and with such ' force that the two turned several somersaults, still linked together. They struck the water at some distance . from the rock, and slowly and painfully regained the shore.