MAN WHO DID NOT CALL WOOF.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1934, Page 21 (Supplement)

MAN WHO DID NOT CALL WOOF.

HELP WHERE IT WAS NOT WANTED. Everybody knows the story of the boy who cried Wolf. Woof, an Alsatian wolfhound, is the hero of a story from Australia which seems to reverse all the facts of the old tale. The Alsatian spends much of his time on the sands at Tuggerah Lakes in New South Wales, and he has earned a reputation as a saver of life from drowning, having already saved two children and a woman. The story is told that Woof saw a bather about 70 yards from the shore waving his arms vigorously. Like a good life-saver Woof plunged into the water and, quickly reaching the swimmer’s side, dragged him shoreward and then hauled him up the beach clear of the water, where he was deposited, gasping, at the feet of his astonished wife. It was a praiseworthy effort on the part of Master Woof, although a wasted one. For the arm-waving which h(J mistook for a distress signal was nothing more than a friendly wave to the bather’s wife on the shore.