Another instance of canine sagacity has been brought under notice ail Batnurst (N.S.W.). A few. days ago three young children . aged two, four and seven years respectively, of Mr Frank- Twemlow, farmer, of Brisbane Valley, were playing about a waterhole. Tlie two eldest, Margaret and Laura, were paddling m the water Avhen a cattle dog t'liat was on the bank -commenced to growl and* bark. The children took no notice of it until suddenly a large snake came out of some rubbish and made for where the children were playing. The dog rushed at it, caught and shook it, eventually killing it, but not before tlie snake had bitten it on the shoulder.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10300, 7 March 1905, Page 4
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