PARISIAN ROBINSON CRUSOE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8912, 4 September 1907, Page 4

PARISIAN ROBINSON CRUSOE.

A youth of 15, named Marcel Onvraille, whose parents live in the country, is not likely to forget his first acquautauce with Paris. Recently the lad was apprenticed to a butcher near the Gare do I’Est. The life was not at all to his liking, so he pleaded with his parents to take him home. They refused, whereupon Marcel, packing his belongings, fled from the house of his employer. His disappearance was notified to his relatives, and his father came to Paris, but failed to find him.

A few days ago the family received a letter from the missing boy, in which he related that ho was sheltering in the Bois de Boulogne, and was dying of hunger. A force of police, after several hours’ search, discovered his hiding place. It was on the other aide of the lake, whore the undergrowth is dense. There he had built himself an habitation, Crusoe-like, out of brushwood, and made himself a bed of leaves. His dwelling was far from being waterproof, and the rain had soaked through. He explained that he had lived on birds, which he had trapped and cooked, and at other times he had existed on cold scraps of food obtained from the restaurants in the Bois.

The lad has now gone home in charge of his father.