ATTACKED BY AN OCTOPUS.
. TIMELY HELP. (By Tolcitraph.- Special Correspondent.) Auckland, January 27. A young man, son' of ; Mr. John M'Nefl, of Waimato Island, \v(is the other day gathering mussels in the wvi closo to tho shore on one of the inlands in the Rulf when liia father was attracted by Iho boy'S crie,s for help. ; On Arriving to sen what was tlio matter,- Mr. M'Neil found that an octopus lim( ono of its tentacles, which was as big as a man's wrist, wound round the hoy's leg. The creature had sq strong a lnjld of the lad that it drew blood before thoy could bo separated. But fov the timely arrival of the father It .wuli hfivo gono hard with the boy. '
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1659, 28 January 1913, Page 6
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123ATTACKED BY AN OCTOPUS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1659, 28 January 1913, Page 6
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