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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 16, 17 December 1884, Page 4

A terrible story .^.qppjds ' 'from" Sh rewsbury Province of i Qu elie.ij', . .vhiclj will; long be: reinem^e^eii 'm. that village. :: A ShortdiStanpe fram : Shrewsburyithdre y resides k (faxvnpt\ named Leblanca, a Frendi-C.aua,di-ari,; ()n> leaving home a' fdw mornr, , ih'£rs ago ; to' wo^k m tlie;*- woods he told his wife to send their daughter, who .was. 13 y^ars o)d, with.' his dinnet'at ndon;* x After waiting until 3' o'cloclri!ff"tlie afternoon he!cbnclud'e'd tb ais Wo 'dinner had krrivedl, He shpnu'dered his gun and but before 'Kb ; 'Had gone' far Iji^']qo.tice4' an iin|n>ense f ibear ap- \ .eating . .soniiething, : ' He (Wat^ejd, it fpr a .mpmeiVt and fired, , ( n3igsing i Xi j s ) in,ark, | Willie reloading' he could? ; se^fhai jit, was x k humam being the bear was devouring. He thon rushed up to withiio, easy discharging his tifle.ijnto 'the rolled i over to :*evear' ' 4be; %ody of hjis little, '^ disfigured andj almost beyond* ' recognition. The flesh I)a4bßeti;t.orr\;6|r Her legs knd face ■while' she still Hdld . th- her jhand the tin c^h-^-'contaTnihg- her j father's .dinnQr. , J '