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NARROW ESCAPE. 



sickly shivering creep over him, accompanied with a certainty 

 that he was about to faint — the inevitable consequence of 

 which, he had sense enough left to know, would be the certain 

 death of the boy, and, in all probability, of himself, as in the 

 act of fainting it was most likely he would fall forward, and 

 follow the rope and boy down the precipice. In this dilemma, 

 he uttered a loud, despairing scream, which was fortunately 

 heard by a woman working in an adjoining field, who, running 



Perilous Leap of a Bird-Catcher. 



up, was just in time to catch the rope, as the fainting man fell 

 senseless at her feet. 



We shall add two more equally hazardous, and one fatal. 

 Many bird-catchers go on these expeditions without any 

 companion to hold the rope or assist them. It was on such 

 a solitary excursion, that a man, having fastened his rope to 

 a stake on the top, let himself down far below ; and, in his 



