BRAVE BOY'S ACT.
TACKLES MAD DOG UNAIDED. Exceptional pluck was displayed at Hastings 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 pijdl a boat up the beach, when a-large sheep dog, affected by the heat, attacked them. A panic ensued, and •the" dog had badly bitten two boys, when Hodges boldly advanced and made friends with the dog, and induced it to "follow him up the beach, through the crowed streets, to,the police station. The dog savagely refused to let anyone come near him except the boy, who, after somfe anxious moments, tied it to a cell bar, and then burst into tears. After the animal had had another paroxysm a veterinary surgeon destroyed it by an injection.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19412, 21 August 1926, Page 2 (Supplement)
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