A BRAVE LITTLE GIRL.
The photograph on this page is that of little Miss Iris Frances Dunlop, aged four and a-half years, daughter of Mr Charles Dunlop, of Gisborne. She distinguished herself recently by rescuing her little brother, a year younger than herself, by pulling him out of the Tarewhero River. The two children had wandered down to the jetty alone, and before their absence was discovered the little boy had slipped over the end. It was high tide, and a moment’s delay would have cost him his life. With
marvellous presence of mind. Iris flung herself flat on the jetty, and leaning over, caught her brother in the nick of time, and the two frightened and excited little ones made their way back to the house. The plucky girl said afterwards: ‘lf I hadn’t pulled him out, he would have been an angel ; least p'raps, he might have been a crab!' There is no doubt he would have been drowned. This brave child received the Graphic Cousins’ Humane Society’s badge in recognition of her pluck and presence of mind in saving her little brother from a watery grave. The badge was presented to her on her fifth birthday.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue XXIV, 14 December 1895, Page 759
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199A BRAVE LITTLE GIRL. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue XXIV, 14 December 1895, Page 759
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