Master Creswick to the rescue…

…Part 2,

…in which one Mr Bardwell from up Sheffield Moor way, finds himself in some quantity of trouble…

Good…

…Gwief !

“Help, fortunately for him, was at hand…

The Right Man was in the Right Place…

Nathaniel Creswick Esq…

…The registerer of the first ever Goal in Footballing history !

with

…admirable courage & presence of mind at once began his…

…Daring Rescue !”

Tell on…

“…Up to his chin in freezing cold water & having hold of the end of a pole, he seized the drowning man, & sustained him above water until those who held the other end of the pole, cautiously dragged him to the edge of the thick *ice**…

The cheer which greeted Mr. Creswick as he landed on the sound ice with his man, would have warmed the heart of the most misanthropic mortal that ever existed…

It was a sudden & unanimous outburst of joy at the escape of a fellow-creature from a watery grave & admiration of the man who had displayed two of the noblest of all characteristics…

Sympathy & Courage!

…& so say All of Us !!!

Never was the Medal of the Royal Humane Society more heroically *won…***

A likely story !

…this part of the operation* was, according to the un-named news-paper report, conducted by “…a few men only, distributing their weight carefully over as large a surface as possible - What numbers have been drowned from want of attention to this !” it declares, breathlessly! “…A man falls in…” it continues “…& the whole crowd immediately rush to the spot with the result is that the whole number are submerged…”

**…The Royal Humane Society had been founded as far back as 1774 & had originally been known as the ‘Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned’ although what a chubby naked child in a gold cape, licking an ice cream has to do with saving people from watery oblivion, is, *thankfully**, a long way beyond us*…