KINDNESS PAYS

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 July 1936, Page 3

KINDNESS PAYS

I ' — l ®rI INJURED STOCKMAN’S ANIMALS. i ‘ ; ] SYDNEY, June ;13. While dingoes howled all round, and his horse and dogs stood, by refusing to leave him, P. L. Comiskey, a stockman on a Queensland station, lap helpless with a broken hip for 22 hours before he was found. Comiskey was thrown from his horse while-mus-tering cattle, and was found by B. Vickers, another stockman, who had been searching for him. < Comiskey said that after Jjeing thrown from his horse, he tried to lie down, . but owing to the broken leg, was unable to do so. He managed to sit upright, and started to coo-ee for help. When it got dark he got hold of a long stick, and raking in pieces of wood, lit a lire. He was without food and water, but his horse did not leave him. Dingoes howled in the vicinity in ' Ihe night, but they did not come near. • Illis kalpie dogs kept them away, and ■ they also snuggled in on both sides of him, and the warmth of their bon- > ies did a lot to keep his courage up. • He had burnt almost all the wood, ? and was hoarse from calling out, when he heard, a horse cantering. He calll ed out again, and attracted the ati tention.. A stretcher was made with I bags and saplings, and he was car- >• ried Lor a mile over a rough gorge to ■ a car. I "Always be kind to dogs and horses a —they repay you,” he said later. - ■ ■