Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 537
in clearing a track through logs and drift-wood for the surf-boat, which had meanwhilebeen summoned, and also helped launch theboat. On a previ-ous occasion shehad stood in snowsix hours helpingthe life-savers workthe whip-line of thebeach apparatus. Edith Clarke,when sixteen yearsold, and a pupil… … keeping her head above water with one arm,paddled with the other, and trod water until aboat came to the rescue. Marie D. Parsons of Fireplace, Long Island,New York, was only ten years old when, seeinga man and a child swept off a pleasure-boat bythe boom, and observing that the child clungto the…
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