Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1903 — Grateful Dog Saves Boy. [ARTICLE]

Grateful Dog Saves Boy.

Walter De Witt, 17 years old, of Brookdale, N. J., owe# his life to the gratefulness of a mongrel dog to which he tossed a bone the other day. The dog was a homeless outcast that had been kicked and beaten and shot at by the entire neighborhood. De Witt’s kindness won the cur's everlasting friendship and he followed the boy everywhere. Young De Witt had a self-made raft on which he was paddling about on Town House pond when It struck a snag and capsized. The boy could swim but little and had all he could do to keep himself afloat. The only being within reach of his voice was the mongrel, branded aa a chicken thief nnd with hide scarred from bullets, but the grateful brute swam to liis assistance and by this aid alone was Ae lad enabled to reach the shore in safety.