Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1879 — A Mother's Pathetic Story of How Her Little Boy Was Saved. [ARTICLE]

A Mother's Pathetic Story of How Her Little Boy Was Saved.

A woman who lives in Ashville, Ala-, writes to the uEgis, of that place, of the rescue of her little three-year-old boy from drowning. The child fell down a well the dark depth of which was thirty feet. The mother saw him go down. She says: “On reaching tne well I was just in time to see him rise to the top of the water. I was alone, save three other little children, whom I sent for help. I had, amid all the anguish of my soul, presence of mind enough to let the bucket down and tell him to take hold of it ; which he did. After some minutes he let loose from weakness, sank again, except his little head. I lowered the bucket lower, telling him to take bold of the rope. He ran his hand through a ring tied on for the purpose of sinking the bucket, and caught the pail, and there he held on for one and a half hours, begging me all the time in his baby-talk to come down and help him out. I would say: ‘Hold on, Bobbie.’ ‘ I will,’ he would reply. At length a lady came to my assistance, ana we took a rope ana made a noose on the end of it, and letting it down told him what to do. He Sut his foot through the noose and rew it up around his knee. I asked him if he could hold on. He said he could hold on to the bucket, ‘daw me out.’ He holding on to the bucket, the rope around his leg, I telling hi® not to let go, we drew nim up until I could reach his little shivering hands. Thus I saved my little baby from drowning. Safe to my breast I' elapsed his little shivering body, and praised God for Hi* mercies.”