Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

A few days since the family of Dr. Crofoot, the dentist, who resides on the corner of Crown and Temple st., missed a promising boy of the Doctor’s about four years old. After the unsuccessful search around the house, the child was finally found, drenched and in a state of insensibility on the edge of a cistern, which had been left open. By the side of the boy, licking his face of his apparently lifeless charge, was a Newfoundland dog, belonging to to Dr. Crofoot. It was supposed that the child had fallen into the cistern, which was filled within two feet of the top, and been rescued by the noble animal. After considerable effort the child was restored to consciousness. He immediately informed his parents that their surmises were correct, and that he owed his life to the intelligence and presence of his faithful guardian, who hearing his outcries, seized him by the hair and dragged from his dangerous bath. Such an animal is invaluable. [New Haven Palladium.