SIX DAYS IN A TREE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2236, 5 March 1886, Page 2

SIX DAYS IN A TREE.

On Christmas Eve Bomo children wer# playing in a lane near the Ashton Court estate, at Bourton, near Bristol, when they heard ft noiseasof someone moaning. The sound was very weak, and it seemed to como from a large tree iri an adjoining field. They mentioned this to two colliers named Cook and Byrant, Mo got into the field, and on feachingwto place pointed out they found a boy iflr hollow, of the trunk and in such a pitible state that they got a vehicle and. took him to the workhouso. When ho had sufficiently recovered he gave his name as Edward Light, saying he was ten years of and it was ascertained that his parflV living in Regent Street, Bedminster.lSd missed him for six days, Light told fto following remarkable story.. spent his school money on tho'lßtfi ult,, and, fearing to go home, had loitered about in tho People's Park at Ashton, During the evening some boys pushed him into the stream which runs through the grounds, He got out, arid, tho nfyht being bitterly cold, ho went into tho field and crept through an opening in an elin-treo, and let himself down into the hollow.of the trunk. Ho took off his wet'sh()Sj find stockings, and during the night he went to sleep. Next morning his feet were so bad and his legs so l)enuinbed.,that,h« eould not use thoni to get Up out of the hollow, and he could only thrust his haw} out of a hole and call,; Nobody heard him, and he dozed off'again .in .an exhausted condition, He remained in the tree for six dalt ing acutely from hunger andTßiratj till discovered by Cook and Bryant "Bfe'Wai vory emaciated, and will probably' lose some of his toes, That,he had 'been# very long time,without food was evident, but it seemed almost incredible "that® had been six days and nights withoSt nourishment.