ATTACKED BY BATS.
"Ah tfriusai oconVence .took place m the resiienc6 orMr Gv Leifaiv're, No. 2l'Bich; mond Square, du<ing the Jiourft before , dawn tbe other; rUlorning, saysithe Mon« fcreal Gazette. " Being awakened from sleep by the screams of pne of his children, a little girl three years old,, Mr Lefaivre iweut into the child's rooni 'to ascertain Uie cause, and found' an enormous rat perched on the little one's forehead, apparently, eating into it v When the father 1 attempted { tg drive. ,;fhe animal i .*way it attacked him and tried to bite his, legf} f . but was finally driven off. When Mr Lefaivre proceeded 10 render, assistance «to the 'littre girly befounri ; that" the vat haf| made a terrible _ wound oh her brow, and', i having parted one of' the ' v'eius had been sucking the blood. , A little child^iresiding next door to Mr Lefaiyt-e was, bitten by a rat no lees, than times during the •past week, and m each case 'the rat 'showed fight before being driveu away.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 15, 15 December 1883, Page 3
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170ATTACKED BY BATS. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 15, 15 December 1883, Page 3
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