He swam with one arm, supporting the body with the other.

They were being rapidly carried away down the stream, when a boat which had been sent out, reached the almost exhausted boy.

Paul and the unconscious boy were taken ashore and conveyed to the back room of a saloon where a doctor soon revived both.

He then proposed that, some token of recognition should be presented by the assembled crowd to the brave little fellow who had made the rescue.

Paul's hat was taken and soon filled to the brim with silver.