The Crew of the Life-boat


  THE Gallant Crew at a life-saving station were about to launch 
their life-boat for a spin along the coast when they discovered, 
but a little distance away, a capsized vessel with a dozen men 
clinging to her keel.

  "We are fortunate," said the Gallant Crew, "to have seen that in 
time.  Our fate might have been the same as theirs."

  So they hauled the life-boat back into its house, and were spared 
to the service of their country.