Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1883 — A Brave Girl. [ARTICLE]

A Brave Girl.

I have another brave girl to-tell you of to-day. She is a brown-eyed, rosycheeked lassie of 14, and her home is in Jersey City. Since her mother’s death, eighteen months ago, she has been her father’s housekeeper, and he says she is a very good one. But it was not foi her housekeeping that I wanted to tell you about Mary Anne Atkinson. She is a favorite with some young ladies who live near her, and they have taught her to row. She is a fearless swimmer, and manages a boat with ease and skill. One afternoon she heard the cries of four small boys who were adrift in a boat in Communipaw basin. Suddenly one of them —Thomas Koslow, 12 years old, the only one who could handle the oars—fell overboard. He had sunk twice when Mary Anne, who had seen the accident from the bank, and had put forth to the rescue, reached him, grasped and drew him into her boat. He was unconscious when she brought him to land, but soon revived under the measures which were at once taken. Meanwhile the brave girl rowed cut again, and towed in the boat in which were the little frightened boys.—Harper’s Young People.