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crowbar had not been driven far into tlie ground, 

 on account of its rocky nature, and just as liis head 

 was about to disappear l)elow the edge of the cliif, 

 he happened to look up at it, and was horrified 

 to see the rope running- round its top instead of 

 its bottom, and the Avhole thing so bent over by 

 the leverage of his weiglit, that, instead of inclin- 

 ing away from him, it was ])ointing almost straight 

 over his head. A frantic yell brought the careless 



rascal to his senses, or 

 in another instant the 

 crowbar would have been 

 pulled out of the ground 

 and the rope jerked 

 from his hands. Some 

 attendants have a repre- 

 liensible knack of trying 

 to look over the cliff at 

 the descending photo- 

 grapher whilst they mani- 

 pulate the rope, which is 

 by no means reassurin<>' 



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to the man below. 

 It has, however, its humorous side, for one day 

 on the Irish coast my brother and a friend were 

 caught by the tide and imprisoned in a cave the}' 

 had stayed too long to investigate. My brother 

 essayed an extremely difficult and dangerous climl) 

 to get out and procure assistance. When he had 

 accomplished about half of his ])erilous task, lie 

 observed the end of a rope gliding down over 

 the face of the cliff towards tlic mouth of the 

 cave. The coaclnnan, and an assistant whose ser- 

 vices had l)een requisitioned for the day, had 

 grasped tlio situation and were lowering the means 

 of rescue. 



