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Title: Forrester's pictorial miscellany for boys and girls
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: F. & G.C. Rand. pbl Forrester, Mark Roberts, William, b. ca. 1829 Orr, Nathaniel Barritt, William, b. ca. 1822 Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891 Stickney, J. K
Subjects: Children's literature, American Natural history Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) Aztec children
Publisher: Boston (7, Cornhill) : F. & G.C. Rand

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o catch, and easy toclimb. All agreed instantly that this was the only hopeof rescue. So John kept the Sky-Bird slowlywheeling, while his three mates cut and tied untilthey had formed a narrow rope ladder about fiftyfeet long. One end of this they securely fastenedin the cabin, while they let the other drop downthrough the glass trap in the floor. To their dismay the rush of wind carried thelight ladder out so horizontally behind that theysaw they could never get low enough with safetyfor Oliver Torrey to reach it! What could theydo now? It seemed they were destined to failure;that Torrey must be left to the cruel and hungrywaves. T have it! cried Bob. Well fasten Grand-pa near the lower end of the ladder. His weightwill be sufficient to keep it down straight. This was a splendid scheme, surely. Accord-ingly, the monkey, wondering what new form ofteasing was about to be imposed upon him, wasfastened about three feet from the bottom end ofthe ladder, and Grandpa and his strange trapeze
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TORREYS HANDS SEIZED THE BOTTOM RUNG OF THELADDER A FLYING RESCUE 291 was tKen slowly let down until all of the ladderhad been paid out. The crew were glad to notethat it now hung almost perpendicularly. Now the success of everything depended uponJohn. He must be skillful enough to bring theladder across Torreys position in just the rightplace for the flyer to grasp it as it swept past. They shouted to the man below to stand up ifhe could, and comprehending in an instant hispart of the program, he struggled to his feet,spreading them wide apart to brace himself, forthe wrecked airplane was rocking somewhat fromthe action of the waves. The first time John brought the Sky-Bird byhe was too high; Torrey could not reach the lad-der. The second time a sudden gust of wind blewthe ropes too far to one side at the critical mo-ment. The third time the machine itself was atrifle too far to one side. But on the fourth at-tempt success met their patient efforts; Torreyshands seized the bottom run

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