BOY'S BRAVE ACT
TACKLES MAI) DOG UNAIDED Exceptional pluck was displayed at Hastings (England) recently by Frank Hodges, aged 13, of Kemsing Village, near Sevenoaks. With other youngsters in a party down for the day, he was helping to pull a boat up the beach, when a large sheepdog, affected by the heat, attacked them. A panic ensued, and the dog had badly bitten two boys, when llodges boldly advanced and made friends with the clog, and induced it to follow him up the beach, through the crowded streets, to the police station. Tin; dog savagely refused to let anyone come near him except the boy, who, after some, anxious moments, tied it. to a cell bar, and then burst into tears. After the animal had bad another paroxysm a veterinary surgeon destroyed it by an injection.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 7 September 1926, Page 2
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