FIGHT WITH AN OCTOPUS.
GIRL'S EXCITING, EXPERIENCE. > to ;.,.Nejv T .-.Zealand Times, a sensational amcident occurred on Wednesdiay, at Island' Bay. Amongst a party of visitors to the seaside resort was a girl tetn years of age, who, divesitftng herself'of her booits and stockinfgs, ,sat on a rock near the ladies' bathing rihed and paddillad hier lege in the water. A few mdnutes had elapsed when the girl's relatives were startled by loud cries, cai runmintg to her assMsitamce found three tentacles of a large cot opus wound tightly round one of her legs, while the girl- was being gvaduaOlly drawn: into the water. All the strength of tihe child's faitiher proved luiavadl'ijitg to extricate her from her predfictament, but with tihte assistance of three tfadtes the oc-to-pus wiais< boateai off and the girl rescued.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10512, 29 December 1911, Page 5
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135FIGHT WITH AN OCTOPUS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10512, 29 December 1911, Page 5
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