SAVING HIS BROTHER
TOO WILY FOR A CROCODILE. If anyone ought to have a gold medal it is the brave African boy who saved his brother, a herdboy, from the jaws of death not long ago.
A farmer living near the Njelele River near Louis Trichardt, sent his 14-year-old herdboy to the river to water his cattle. The boy did not notice that what looked like a log of wood half out of the water had a pair of wily little eyes watching him. Shouting to the cattle, the boy walked into the water, when —Snap! A crocodile had seized him and begun to pull him toward the deep water, when his screams were heard by his brother, who ran to help.
Most people would have wanted to l<eep out of the way of the crocodile, but the black boy did not hesitate. He tried to release his brother and, as it was impossible, he managed to stop the crocodile’s nostrils. Unable to breathe, the reptile had .to open its mouth, and the boy was saved.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 47, Issue 2666, 6 September 1937, Page 5
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