Doris E. Lewis, 14, schoolgirl, saved Benjamin W. Draper, 7, from drowning, Cowansville, Quebec, November 25, 1911. Doris, whose height was five feet, three inches, approached to within three feet of a hole in the ice on the Yamaska River, where the water was five feet deep, and extended a hockey stick to Benjamin, who had broken through the ice. Finding that he was too benumbed to grasp the stick, she crawled forward until her body was in the water and the ice broke under her. After swimming two or three feet to Benjamin, she placed her arm around him and swam with him. Her feet touched a boulder on the bottom, and she stood on it, in water four feet deep, holding Benjamin, until assistance reached her, 10 minutes later. Doris was unconscious when taken from the water, but she was revived. 8540-720
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