RESCUE
A grand-nephew of Ben
Cartwright, Kevin, lwas staying at the
Ponderosa. The lad had already a close bond with Hoss
and they were
often to be found together nearthe
water. Though Kevin kept silent
about that he couldn't swim.
At a certain day the two were to be found at the water. Because Hoss
had his attention by his fishing he had lost the boy out of sight.
Kevin said to himself, "I am going
swimming."
Suddenly the boy tripped and he almost fell into the water
. Hoss
looked up and saw what was happening.
As a spear he ran to Kevin and he grabbed the boy out of the water.
"Dadburnit Kevin, what are you doing?", Hoss said strict.
"I wanted to walk along the water but almost fell in it by accident
", said Kevin.
"Can you swim?", asked Hoss.
Kevin shook of no.
"You can't swim but still you play near the water each day. Then
you
must know that you can fall ino it?", was the next question of
Hoss.
The boy nodded.
"Promise me that you stay by me as long as we are here and not go
alone to the water", Hoss said at a
strict
tone.
Kevin nodded again.
The sermon of Hoss had helped because
Kevin went
to play a bit
further away from the water so that he couldn't or wouldn't fall
into it.