The Amazing Rescue

"The Amazing Rescue"*

*The grizzled fireman was being badgered by a
young lady who insisted on knowing of any
particularly unusual rescues he had carried
through.

"Well," said the fireman, "there was one time when
we had some one on the eighth floor window in a
narrow alley. We couldn't get the hook and ladder
in place; we had no ordinary ladder that would
reach; there was no landing net available; and
the progress of the fire left him no escape by
going back through any window."

"My goodness," said the excited young lady. "What
did you do?"

"I went up the side of the building like a human fly,
carrying a rope with me He took one end of the
rope and tied it firmly around his own waist. Then
we dropped the other end to the firemen waiting
on the ground and they pulled us both down."

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"The End of Troubles"*

*"Son, I just know you'll do the right thing
by this little girl," said the preacher. "You
just marry her, and you'll be at the end of your troubles."

So he did the right thing, and he married
the girl, and about six months later when
he saw the preacher again he tried to murder him.

"You miserable liar!" shouted the young
man. "You told me if I married her, I would
be at the end of my troubles. Well, I married
her, and she has made my life miserable."

"That may be true, son, but you can't blame
me," replied the minister. "I said you'd be at
the end of your troubles, but I never said which end."
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