NARROW ESCAPE FROM HORRIBLE DEATH.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1448, 5 January 1887, Page 2

NARROW ESCAPE FROM HORRIBLE DEATH.

+ Tho Waimatt Times reports that on Thursday a little boy fu r years old, a son of Mr Biokey, residing near by Mr Bayo's Woolnhed at Drybaah, while p!a- Ibr near a pigsty where several hogn wi-ro belo^ fattened, accidentally fell m hwides the brutes, who at onoa oimmanoed to attack him An uuu ual noise m thit dirootion attrooted the attention of the member* of the h h iohold, nnd upon running to thy spot, the f*c p«llinn hlpht of a child being devoured by the pig* met their g»z <>. To rtnoua | tho ohild was the work of a moment, and thankful they w«re when they dinoovered that the boy, although noratoh»d, torn, *"d bleeding about the fac«i and legs, was Btill allvo. Hod 'ho resoue been delayed bnt porhapn a inmate morn, life would have been extinct. Dr NioHolr was' qaiokly summoue 4, and restoratives being applied, ooDßofont-nesß returned. Several horrid gaohco about tho lips and oheek were sewn up lay the doctor, under whose eire the litfc c sufferer is now Rettincf oa •s well as can be expected, although It will require the moat careful medioal ■ skill to bring him through. The pigs have lately beon fed a cood deal with animal foorf—Bhoepa 1 pluok and oaroasei of sheep t -at have been worried, and ' this, doubt'eaa, has developed m the hogs a taste for hnnann, fl^ h. ' lb would pi well for parents to keep thoir #yoB dpq^ ' the little odob whert there la simlltr danger, db death by devouring is alto- < gethor too horrible to oon template. Only I a miracle saved the little fellow Hfoktjr ' from etioh • deitb. i