Before He'd Finished.
The park policeman, seeing a youngster standing on the" brink of one of the ponds in his domain, accosted the youth. "What's the matter, Tommy?" he queried. The youngster pointed to a boy's hat, which was bobbing up and down in the middle of the pond. "My bruwer " he sobbed. But the brave bobby waited not to hear irore. In a flash he had divested himself of his coat and waded into the ice-cold water. He reached the hat, and dived. He came up at last, but with the hat only. "Gaja't find him !" he gasped. 'Where was he standing when, he fell in?" , The boy gaped. v "He ain't fell in," he said. "He's over there. I was going to tell you he threwed my hat into the pond, but you wouldn't lemme finish."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 26 August 1908, Page 91
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138Before He'd Finished. Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 26 August 1908, Page 91
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