UNWILLING TO BE RESCUED
A shipwreck survivor had been cast upon an uninhabited island. For weeks and months he had waited for rescue. He watched from the island’s heights for sign of a ship but none came. Then one day, on the distant Horizon he saw it, first a sail, then the ship, coming closer and closer. What joy! What a thrill at the prospect of being rescued at last. But when the ship dropped anchor and a landing party approached, he was suddenly afraid, after all this time, to meet these people face to face. His clothes were ragged and torn; he had not shaved nor had a haircut for months and months. How would he look to them? So, he hid himself! The men of the landing party saw signs of his presence. They knew he was on the island. They shouted, they searched, they called over and over. But he knew the island too well and managed to elude their every…
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