[THE LIFEBOAT-MAN'S RETURN—THE WELCOME HOME.]

[THE LIGHTHOUSE.]

[SAVED FROM THE WRECK.]

[SAVED BY A DOG.]

[HOISTING THE SIGNAL.]

[CRADLED IN HIS CALLING.]

[FATHER'S JOY.]

[LAUNCH THE LIFEBOAT!]

WHEN I was a boy I thought August was the happiest month in the year. I liked December too, for Christmas came in it, with the Christmas-tree and all sorts of good things. July was almost as nice, for my birthday was on the sixteenth, and I always had a tableful of presents. But, after all, there was no month like August, for in August we always went to the sea-side.