SIX-YEAR-OLD HERO.
Remarkable bravery and presence of mind were recently shown by a six-year-old boy named John Collins, the son of a farm labourer living at Marden, Kent. Several children wore playing on the side of a stream, when Isabel I'riant, a girl aged soven, fell into five feet of water. Thereupon a panic ensued among the other children, who ran off crying to toll her parents, but the boy, John Collins, displayed tho utmost coolness and presence of Breaking a long branch from an ashsucker near by, he quickly ran along a plank, only eleven inches wide, and held the branch out to the drowning girl, who was able to grasp it. Then walking along tho narrow plank the boy pulled the girl fourteen feet through tho water to some brickwork, where, after a hard strugglOj lie succeeded in landing her just as the terrified parentß camo running to the spot.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 294, 5 September 1908, Page 9
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152SIX-YEAR-OLD HERO. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 294, 5 September 1908, Page 9
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