CENTIPEDE ON GIRL'S NECK.
i CARRIED FOR EIGHT MILES. '■ / Two ..young girls/- - with, brothers as escorts, • recently rode 10 miles to a ] dance ,at jWairoa, Hawks's Bay,/ haying t earlier.'sent their ; evening- frocks to ' a i friend's / house so that they could / change *on arrival. The night /was dark, and * one of the/ girls " blundered on her horse 3 into the dead branch of a tree by the , roadside. /A" little /later' she felt a tick h ling sensation on her neck/It persisted 1 aria her , brother / struck /a - match -• to find ] the cause, but -nothingswas/visible./; So , without'any. tribulation -of spirit she rode the remaining eight miles to Wairoa, feelj" ing just >.an. occasional repetition : of-, the 1 irritation. ' On changing her dress at , her . friend's • house,; she discovered the 5 cause when i a four-inch centipede 1 dropped - [torn, her blouse to the ■ floor. >,■»^ : '■ ' - ? V. • • ;- , ; . ' ' • V.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18703, 8 May 1924, Page 11
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