A BRAVE BOY.
HOW HE SAVED A LITTLE 'MATE,
An 'act of fema'rkab'le lefoieni fras :porformed -a few days' ago- by a boy til 11' years of age, by which a child of five ; years "Mis, saved. from ftn ilinost •certain death. A number of school children were playing about a railway bridge near Titirangi fiord; "NeVLynn, end a littlo boy named Edward Dyer wandered'on to tho bridge ih front of a train which woo approaching, down a hill at a considerable speed. The 'child was almost; paralysed with fear, and fell across the rails, dutching them tightly in his dread. Seeing the traifi; plose upon Bin; itid taking in the situation at a glance, a. bpy_ named Alexander-Bff?on> 11 yeaTS of age," rushed on to the bridge, and, taking up the ftfghtehSd child in his arms;' jumped into some thick scrub below, just as the' train dashed past. Both obildren lnckily came 'off without a-scratch. .
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1616, 6 December 1912, Page 4
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156A BRAVE BOY. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1616, 6 December 1912, Page 4
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