A RED INDIAN'S ADVENTURE
Original, by ELVA LEAF, Matakobe (Age ia years) One gloriously sunny day an idle Indian boy untied the flax that bound his small canoe to a tree, and began paddling the craft toward mid-strean . For tlu> next hour he fished, but as he did not get any bites he decided to explore the creek. Being used to the water he had no icar of the boat tipping over, and was Iving leisurely back in his seat when the terrifying roar of a waterfall reached his ears. He grasped the oars and began paddling toward the bank, but as the current was against him he soon became exhausted. As he was approaching the water!a 11 an eagle happened to notice the danger the boy was in and darted do.wn toward him. Desperately the boy grabbed the legs of the eagle and it, being a bird of jjrieat strength, bore him sal fly to a neighbouring paddock, where it set him down unbanned. That evening the boy related his story to his mother. She reminded him of the time when he had cared for a babv eagle which had broken its wing. He decided it must have been the same one that saved liis life.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22991, 19 March 1938, Page 8 (Supplement)
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207A RED INDIAN'S ADVENTURE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22991, 19 March 1938, Page 8 (Supplement)
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