A HEROIC DOG

 

A HEROIC DOG -TRUE STORY HAPPENED IN NY 1876

A GENTLEMAN, who witnessed the capsizing of a scow at New York, some time ago, by it coming in contact with a steamer, gives the following account of the occurrence:-
After the scow capsized, a Newfoundland dog rose beside it, shook the water from his head and shoulders, and surveyed the scene. He seemed to comprehend  the situation at a glance, immediately dived under the scow, and a moment afterwards rose on the other side with the insensible form of his mistress. held up by his teeth. He sustained her till a man in a boat took hold of her, when "as quick as a flash." the noble dog dived under the scow again, and was gone fully two minutes, when he came up for air, and dived again, both times without success. He then started to swim to the boat into which the woman had been taken, and after getting halfway, seemed to hesitate; stopped, returned, to the wreck and dived once more in a last desperate effort to recover the children. This proving unsuccessful, he swam away, and I lost sight of him. American Paper 

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Chatterbox 1876