A WILD WOMAN.

Auckland Star, Volume III, Issue 624, 11 January 1872, Page 3

A WILD WOMAN.

GEBHAETSVILLE, PA., IS VISITED BT A WILD

WOMAN OF THE WOODS

Gebhaktstille, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, claims the sensation of the week. It has a genuine simon-pure wild woman, almost as nude as was Eve after the fall, for she wears only an apron of leaves, sandals of bark, and a necklace of teaberries. Swift as a doe, people have rarely been able to see her features distinctly in her visits to the neighboring farm-houses and outskirts of the village; yet those who have seen her declare that she is far from uncomely in person and countenance. Her oval face is set with keen black eyes, and framed in long masses of Sowing black hair; and with her tall, slender figure, she has the air of the queen of the forests. Like most women, she has a great dread of men, and bounds away over fences and fields whenever one attempts to approach. Yet she is consistent, and avoids in like manner too great familiarity with womjn. i'or children, however, she seems to have a great fondness, as was exemplified only a few days past. While passing near the house of a farmer she espied a little girl three or four years old, playing in the road. Crouching, she crawled behind a fence until within a short distance of the child, then with v bound cleared the fence, in the next moment seized the screaming little one, and was away at the top of her speed. The mother hearing the screams of her child pursued, screaming yet more loudly. Her husband, attracted by theories of both, hastened to the chase. The wild woman, finding herself encumbered by the weight of the chiid, dropped it and escaped. The latter was uninjured, with the exception of some scratches, which no doubt are attributable to the long nails of the strange denizen of the fields and forest.