Some Passages In The Life Of Sir Frizzle Pumpkin

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Excerpt from Some Passages in the Life of Sir Frizzle Pumpkin: The Pic-Nic, and Other Tales I saw his head and pale brow, after coming up for' a moment, go down a second time, - a dimness fell upon my eyes, a faintness came over my spirit, and, in the intensity of my apprehension, I lost my balance, and fell into the hole where my poor friend was struggling. A little recalled to my recollection by the plunge, I grasped convulsively at the nearest object, and, sup ported by my belt, I made directly for the land. In stinctively I clambered up the bank, still clenching the object I had seized in the water. I just saw it was the arm of poor Wharton, and that I had saved him - when again my terrors overcame me, and I fainted. When I recovered my senses, I was saluted with shouts of bravo, bravo l slowlyi opened my eyes, and found myself surrounded by my friends; Whar ton was still chafing my temples, and calling me his deliverer, and pouring forth the most profuse expres sions of his gratitude. Though still shuddering at my narrow escape, I expressed in a few words my happiness at having been the instrument of his pre servation, but I told him at'the same time, with truth, that my exertions had scarcely been voluntary, and that as I was quite unable to swim, it was only over powering necessity which ob_liged me to plunge into the river. The fame rof this exploit soon spread through the somewhat contracted circle of the town of my total ignorance of swimming enhanced the merit of my heroic contempt of danger, and for a week or two I was quite the lion of the parties in the neighbourhood. But my gallantry, as it was termed, had a more enduring memorial than the applauses of the beaux and belles of The officers at that time in the dep6t, presented me with a handsome snuff box, on which is an inscription, testifying their high Opinion of my merit in plunging in, at the imminent risk of my life, to the assistance of a brother Of ficer. - This box I of course still preserve, and al though it is nearly thirty years since the adventure took place, I can scarcely now look on that compli mentary testimony to my courage without a blush. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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