PLUCKY ADVENTURE.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 21 November 1923, Page 7

PLUCKY ADVENTURE.

RED SQUIRREL SWIMS NIAGARA RAPIDS. A red s’ljuirrel successfullv swam the rapids al.ove the American Falls to-day, ami just sated itself from going.over the cataract. The squirrel fell into the stream from a lofi a few hundred yards abote the brink cf trie cataract, and was swept out in the current. It succeeded in leaching a nxk son;' distance out in the liver, To this it elm g v.hile the '.aters <4 the rap is swept by. Itcservation employees saw its predicau.e..:, aii.l liic. flushed a long ladder out . . ci. . : th< s p.i: ti l would si over ;• to the shore. Il'.i the ’ iel plunged into the sire and i„ . <1 on thy mainland after , •_ :•■. only a few feet fr< in •J brink ." th falls-