A Wild Woman.
Ix over-crowded England "blighted beings " take a rash leap into eternity. In tho vahtness of America they (sometimes) take to the virgin forests where the foot of man seldom treads, where they can nurse their sorrows in solitude, and where they can roam about undisturbed by the remarks of Mrs Grundy. Such was the desperate step adopted by the nice-looking young daughter of a farmer in Illinois. About four years ago she suffered a disappointment in love. Having been wooed and lost, she was lost in the wood. After four years' subsistence on roots and herbs, with a cave among the rocks for a dwelling, she made a startling apparition to a party of hunters in the character of a mysterious wild woman. We are told that her form was sinewy ; that she had a receding forehead, and eyes of unnatural lustre ; that her garments were of the most scanty description (no dollars or dressmakers in the wilderness) ; that her hair was black, and about three feet long ; that- she leapt from tree to tree with marvellous agility, and that all cittempts to capture her were fruitless. This unnatural child is now a child of Nature, but Nature has been to her an unkind stepmother.
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Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 73, 25 October 1884, Page 5
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208A Wild Woman. Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 73, 25 October 1884, Page 5
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