A "HOVEL." 



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National Life-boat Institution presented a medal, &c., to the captain, and 1 each to 

 the eight men forming- the crew. 



The greatness of the risk to the hoveller, and the comparative smallness of his 

 reward, are illustrated in the case of La Marguerite, a small French brio-, rescued from 

 the Goodwin Sands and brought safely into Ramsgate Harbour. She was owned by her 

 captain, and represented to him the labours of a hardworking life. She was bound 



THE LUGGER REACHING RAMSGATE HARBOUR. 



from Christiania to Dieppe, with a cargo of deals, and was considerably hampered on 

 deck, the timber being piled up almost to her gunwale. She lost her cotirse in the 

 night, and grounded on the Sands. " Where are they ? "Where can they be ? What 

 horrible mistake have they made?" writes Mr. Gilmore in his forcible manner. "They 

 think they must have run somewhere on the mainland on the Kent coast; one man 

 proposes to swim ashore with a rope, but the seas come sweeping over them with a 

 degree of violence that quite does away with any thought of making such an attempt. 

 They hurry to the long-boat, to try and get it out, but it and the only other boat 



