BRAVE BOY'S ACT
TACKLES MAD DOG UNAIDED Exceptional pluck was displayed at Hastings recently by Frank Hodges, aged 13, of JKemsing 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 largo sheepdog, 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 crowded streets, to the police station. The dog savagely refused to let anyone come noar him except the boy, who, after some anxious moments, tied it to a cell bar, and then burst into tears. After tlio animal had had .another paroxysm a veterinary surgeon destroyed it by an injection.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12538, 30 August 1926, Page 12
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136BRAVE BOY'S ACT New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12538, 30 August 1926, Page 12
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