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"A man and boy clinging onto a rope which is hanging from a cliff, trying to avoid being beaten against the rocks, as they dangle in a wild sea. From aEThe Boyaas Own Paperaa 1879-80, a British newspaper for boys which was at that time published by the Religious Tract Society and which featured stories, heroic deeds, facts, educational items and illustrations."
A brave teenage boy removing his jacket and about to dive into a river to save a drowning girl, while a row of anglers watch form a bridge nearby. From a bound volume of “Chatterbox”, edited by J Erskine Clarke and published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co, London. Copies of a children’s weekly magazine dated from 20 November 1886 to 5 November 1887.