comes to the rescue…
Master Creswick
…Part 2,
…in which one Master Billy Bardwell from up Sheffield Moor way, finds his sad & sorry self 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…
(…registr’r of that first ever Goal in Football’s history, of course ! )
with…
…admirable courage & presence of mind at once began his…
…Daring Rescue !”
Continue, do!
…Oh, alright then…
“…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 hearts of the most misanthropic mortals 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!
was the…
Never…
Medal…
of the…
Royal Humane Society**
…more heroically won!
& so say…
All of Us !!!
Hmmm…
A likely little story !
Any more on this Creswick chap?
Oh, yes !
*…this part of the operation was, according to the un-known 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…
