AIJM) ALE LET JACKAL GO. While Mr Charles Barry, of the Allahabad Telegraph Department, was taking six dogs lor a walk near the Old Cavalry Lines a jackal was sighted. Five of the dogs gave chase, but Hetty, a pedigree Airedale, remaineu with her master. Whilst going up to watch the case from a narrow path, Air Barry was arrested by a growl from Betty, who dashed past him and seized a large cobra erf the deadly black kind, which reared up, its hood expanded, only two or three paces ahead. Instantaneously the dog seized the reptile just below the hood, shook it like a rat and flung it to one side; but the cobra, recovering, buried its fangs in the dog’s throat. It hung on very firmly while the dog backed several yards. Then the snake released its hold, struck again, and slid oil' into the jungle. Air Barry, who had not even a stick with him, had been, for the moment, a helpless spectator. He rushed back to the .Military Hospital with his dog, but Betty died 35 minutes after she had been bitten.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1929, Page 7
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199Page 7 Advertisements Column 2 Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1929, Page 7
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