A PLUCKY YOUNGSTER.
A little boy named Gray had a narrow escape at Johnsonville on Monday, He and his elder brother, aged eight years, were crossing the railway line at the Johnsonville crossing in front of a train wheu the younger lad stumbled. The driver was unable to stop the train, but the elder brother, with great pluck, pulled the other out of harm's way. So close was the engine, however, that the cow-catcher grazsd tbe youngster's leg.
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9365, 14 March 1896, Page 7
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