ATTACKED BY WOLVES.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13752, 18 June 1913, Page 2

ATTACKED BY WOLVES.

A torrible story of a father's desperate act in 4 throwing, his child to the wolves is rohitod by the Astrakhan correspondent of the- St. Petersburg Vi'odemosti. A peasant named Grus-nc-ijofl, accompanied. by his Avifo and four-year-old child, it is stated, was travelling by sleigh to Volchuni. Towards dusk, when only a few miles from'the town, he.suddenly came on a pack of wolves. Grusneijoff's wife

in her teiror, suggested that he should appease tho famished boasts by flinging to; them tho child. This, however, the man at first refused to do, continuing to belabour his horses. At"'length,, however, seeing that the wolves were gaining on the sleigh, he flung the child into tho road. His sacrifice, was in vain, for the wolves, discarding the living bundle,

Hew to tho attack with renewed fury, and at length dragged tho peasant from the sleigh. When the hors-es arrived in tho town the woman was found lying -unconscious in the sleigh. The child, which had not suffered tho slightest injury, was found lying peacefully sleeping on the road.