Jacobs, Mabel - Larry Sullivan - Dan Hopping - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Last Thursday Miss Mabel Jacobs, a sewing girl at the pantaloons factory, came near losing her life on the Yountsville dam. She was in a boat with Larry Sullivan and the two were having the jolliest kind of a time. The boat was some fourteen feet from shore when Larry", who was standing up, fell overboard and in so doing upset the boat. When the boat was upset it fell over Miss Mabel, who by it was kept from coming to the surface. Larry had been half stunned by his fall and was having all he could do to save himself. It looked pretty blue' for Miss Mabel for about three shakes of a sheep's tail and it would have been just as blue as it looked if gallant Dan Hopping hadn't been standing on the bank with Miss Emma Hunt waiting for their turn to ride. Dan is a regular old sea lion and the raging waters of Sugar Creek, especially on a quiet dam where they don't rage, aren't even a circumstance for him. When he appreciated the really serious condition of Miss Mabel accoutered as he was plunged in. The torrent roared and he did buffet it, throwing it aside and stemming it with heart of controversy. When he reached the boat he dived like a mallard duck and when he reappeared he held moist Mabel in his good right arm and as /Eneas, our great ancestor, did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder the old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Sugar Creek did Dan bear the half drowned maiden. And Dan is now become a god and Larry is a wretched creature and must bend his body if Dan carelessly but nod to him. It's tough enough luck to spill your best girl out in a muddy creek but it's the worst of luck to have her pulled out by another fellow.