Excerpt from The Strolling Player, or Life and Adventures of William Templeton, Vol. 3 of 3Orr my return to reason, I inquired into the means of my preservation, a'nd learnt that I owed it to a young sailor, who havmg observed the extravagance of my, conduet, watched me to the'aet of desperation, when, with a heroism congenial with his profession, he plunged after, and brought me*to the shore, thence, with the assistance of another person, to the public house wheie I now lay. I desired to see him, \but was informed, that the moment 1 had dis covered signs of life, he hurried away.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.