WOLVES CARRYING AWAY CHILDREN.
1 A Mokah correspondent writes to the Indian i Pioneer : —The; wolves art; carrying oil' chil- < dren at a terrible rate. A poor little child < was taken away and eaten (only the lower ' p:irt of one leg being found) from the lines of 1 the :27th I'nijjaiib Infantry a short time ago. 1 Another chilil was carried oil'and eaten (only i tin; head buiiu; found) from the; door of the I house of r>. puor, oid, half-Wind coolie. Last 1 ni;dit an ayah's child was carried oil' from in- 1 Hide a wall enclosure in an ollicer's compound, i t!u; wolf jumping over two children and I takinira third lying close to its mother, who, c poor creature, ran shrieking after it. The s poor children are apparently always sei/.ed by s the throat, so their cries are not heard. i i
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6566, 2 December 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)
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