"One Minute Longer"
Story Stats
Rating: 4
Grade Level: 3, 4, 5
Page count: 14
Author
Albert Payson
Terhune
Appeared in
The Second St. Nicholas Anthology
Story Summary
When a young boy falls through the ice, he keeps repeating something he had read..."Heroism is the ability to hang on one minute longer"... until his dog, Wolf, can fetch help.