HARRY'S RESCUE

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 15, 28 October 1927, Page 15

HARRY'S RESCUE

This is a little story written by Peggy Farquhar, Mt. Hutt, about the little Fijian boy seen in the advertisement for Ryland’s Wire. . Once upon a time, in there lived a poor native boy called Harry. His clothes were in rags and his feetwere bare. He did not.,mind this, because it was so hot there. , He was an orphan, and he thought nobody cared for him, One day, while he was walking along a street in one of the popular towns o/ Fiji, he saw a little girl rush out into the street. In a flash he was afte: her and just had enough time to carry her safely to the pavement at the other side of the street before a speeding motor passed by. Thus this ignoran‘ little child would have been run. ever Hind not this clever native boy savec er. Soon, beside him stood the thankfo* mother, She asked him where he lived His reply was: "I haye no ’ome, no money, and I am only a miserable littir orphan." Harry soon found himsel‘ being, taken home with the child and her mother. They arrived at the house, and the father, hearing of the rescue, offered ‘Harry the job of helping him to sel! "wire. If he did this, the father said, he would give him food, clothing, and « good and comfortable home. Harry, thankful of food, without clothing and a good home, thanked the kind father so much that tears came into his eyes, and he now began te. feel the loss of his own dear father and mother. :