"I cannot stand it, boys!"

A BRAVE BOY

An interesting little boy, who could not swim, whilst skating on our river on New Year's Day, ran into a large air-hole. He kept himself for a time above water: the little boys, all gathered round the opening, tried to hand him poles; but the ice continued breaking, and he was still floating out of reach.
Despair at last seized his heart, and was visible in every face around. At this moment, when, exhausted, the poor little fellow was about to sink, a brave and generous hearted boy exclaimed, "I cannot stand it, boys!" He wheeled round, made a run, and dashed in at the risk of his own life, and seized the little boy and swam to the edge of the ice with him: after breaking his way to the more solid ice, he succeeded in handing him out to his companions, who then assisted him out. In Rome, this act of heroism would have insured this brave youth a civic crown. His name is Albert Hershbergar.

—Charleston (Va.) Republican.

"I cannot stand it, boys!" Let us live our life's like this, and be able to say this when our help is needed.

wes

It does grow back

Life's lessons come to us in all different formats and times.  I live in a place where it still can freeze up to Memorial Day, that is at the end of May. Yes is snowed a little here 2 days ago, no it didn't stay long but it snowed.  Today it has been raining and so did it yesterday.   Me and my wife took a little walk around the yard after it rained.  We stopped by our lilac bushes and looked at the flowers that were starting to bud.  It was beautiful.  Just a little bit of rain water was sitting in the buds.  I wish I had the picture that I took to show you. Very beautiful.   We also have strawberries and raspberries that we have been growing the past couple of years.  The strawberries seem to not really die (or hibernate, or whatever plants do during the winter) but the raspberries-well the stems look dead all winter long.  The first summer after winter, after we planted them, we cut them back because we thought that they were dead.  Well guess what they weren't.  We didn't know that until a couple of years later when we didn't get them cut back fast enough and they started to grow back.  Yea, we could have some real nice raspberry bushes right now.  Well life is like that some times. It could be with a lot of different opportunities, sometimes it does grow back.  An opportunity that we thought had passed could come around to us again.  someone that we thought we would never see, or hear from again we do. What ever it may be it could and sometimes does come back around to us again.

Happy living.

Wes