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COLUMN FOR CHILDREN.

IERIN GO BRAGH.

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I ERIN GO BRAGH. ANDREW CAVANNAGHS'S PLUCK. I THE TALE AS TOLD BY HIMSELF. The sub-editor was cooling off, after seeing to press the last edition of the Echo; and was summarising events to the reporter on duty, Heavy day-Mulwell Hiil murder sensational stuff. Ssntences commuted on tho Transvaal fellows. Had to put the Synagogue into a stick or two and Bird's chapel only a par. Good matter all round. Things get busier every day." Then the door burst open. and THE DEPUTATION ENTERED. One hatless member seen.ed excited. I want to tell yer 'boiit this boy 'e saved another boy from drownin' rescued ',m went in after 'im an(] got'im oub." The business having thus been introduced in due form, with full explicitness, the unimpaa- sioned sub laconically inquired :— Who did ?" This one," answered the gentleman without a hat, indicating his colleague who had no shoes and the latter, removing his head-gear when thus brought into notice, displayed a thatch of wet hair and smiled. Tell us about it." Why, he tumbled in the Feeder, and he shouted me an' I dived after him and brought him out. 'Andy,' he says, I'il give yer every Why, he tumbled in the Feeder, and he shouted me an' 7. dived after him and brought him out. Andy,' he says, I'il give yor everv penny I gob; every penny I got, Andy, he says". Au' I took off his clothes and 'put my coat round him an' another boy put bis coat round, an' we him an' another boy put bis coat round, an' we took him home. 'E was nearly drowned." Whereabouts in the Feeder ?" II Near the Baths." You can swim, then ?" Yes." Wbert4 did you learn ?" At the Baths. I was the only one there as could swim an' he [pointing to the original speaker] shontfd me." I was on the wall," interpolated that gentle- man, "an'I hollered, 'Andy. Andy, there's a little boy in the river,' an' Aiidv got over the wall an' dived after 'im, and fetched 'im out." "Your name's Andrew, then. Andrew what 1" "Andrew Cavanagh, sir, I climbed up the wall as soon as I could, an' I dived in, an' I started fetchin' under water." Fetching ?" Yi'S; fetchin' round with my hands an' swimmin' under water to find ';m." Didn't they show you where to go in ?" I saw his cap an' went in there an' I caught !im round the waist and brought 'iin up." Didn't he grip you ?" No his hands dropped just dead Jike. 'E didn't ketch 'old o' me, an' we come up in the middle and I swum ashore with 'rm. I was swimming with one hand, an' had '1m with the other." He'd bin up once, and gone down agin," said the smallest member of the deputation. Yus an' Andy saved him a year ago," said the boy in the background, indicating the little one. Did you see him go in this afternoon ?" No I come with him to show him the way. Somebody said, 'You go and tell the EcJio and he didn't, know the way." I WHAT Didn't know the way to the Echo office ?" I Not the way upstairs, sir. He was at the I bottom and didn't know the way so I come with him." Then Andrew handed in a certificate duly attested, the which is worth reproduction. attested, the which is worth reproduction. Who was the boy you saved ? Georgy Tunsiclt. He's a foreigner. A lot of people said Go and tell the Eeho reporter about it,, and I come quick." He evidently had, for bis dry suit, included a man's singlet that dropped almost below the coat. But Andrew was tion,, the le" jolly; and when,after a pass from pocket to palm, he said Thank you" and departed, he vouchsafed the intelligence— My brother John saved a child down by the West Wharf."

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