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Show Caierpillar Bite Sends Victim to Hospital Ward iMiil Creek Man Attacked I by Creeper While Enjoying Enjoy-ing Outdoors Nap. MOST persons place caterpillars in the category of innocent insects, in-sects, but Lawrence Lee of Mill ! Creek now classes them as ! among the most dangerous and poisonous poison-ous of creatures. ; Lee was taking an afternoon nap bc-i bc-i neath a spreading t ree yesterday and was awakened by the uncanny feeling of something crawling up the leg of his trousers. Shaking out a caterpillar, caterpil-lar, he discovered that he hat I been bitten on the ankle. Later in the afternoon af-ternoon a rash appeared and he went to the emergency hospital for treat- i ment. Officials of the hospital said last night that it was one of the strangest capes ever seen hero, and t hat the poison has spread through the young man 's whole system, brea l;ing out in many parts of his body. While the bite is nut considered fatal, it may rjrove so. |