Identifier: oldironsideshero00elli (find matches)
Title: Old Ironsides, the hero of Tripoli and 1812, and other tales and adventures on sea and land
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916
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Publisher: New York, Hurst and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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alyzedwith fear, believing himself to be the solitary spec-tator of the day-dawn suicide. Then SanrSs voicerang out above the roar of the falls, as the boy wasrunning away. Say, boy, where are you goingwith my watch ? And there the daring man wasfrolicking like a dolphin in the seething water.When he emerged from the water he was welcomedby a crowd which had gathered, and he was carriedup the steep bank. The story of.Sams last feat was graphicallytold a half century afterward by a printer, whosaw his fatal jump. He says: The success of the leaps at Xiagara gave Sama sporting notoriety, and he was invited by thatfraternity to Rochester, who took charge of him.The Genesee Fall, at Rochester, is ninety-five feetin height, and it was announced that he wouldleap from the precipice into the river below. Alarge crowd assembled, and Patch appeared, lead-ing his bear. Hats were passed around to collectmoney for the poor fellow. About one oclock onNovember Gth Sam stepped to tho edo;e of a rock
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SAMS LAST JUMP.181 182 OLD IRONSIDES. overhanging the river, and, dragging the bear afterhim, suddenly jerked it from the rock. The pooranimal whirled through the air, and, reaching thewater, sank, but soon swam ashore, and was caughtfor further torture. Then Sam Patch, with a gayhandkerchief swisted about his head, and in shirtand trousers, bowed all around to the spectators,and leaped clear of the rock, spread his arms, and,holding his feet together and bending backward, hefell rapidly to the water, which he struck feet fore-most, having suddenly thrown his arms down closeto his body. He reappeared on the surface of theriver some rods below, and he gayly pushed awaythe boat that was ready to take him and swamashore. This feat was so successful that the sport-ing fraternity decided upon another exhibition.They built a scaffold upon the rock twenty-fivefeet high, so that the leap would be one hundredand twenty feet. The day was a week later (No-vember 13th), and a still larger crowd a

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