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Show Kiilcti li.y .Vluskratt. liAv-iiKNCEi'.Ei'.i;, Intl., August 6. Sa nul l Lailin, residing nen: here, is dead lroin wounds received in a light witu inuskra'.s. Last Friday he went ti.-hhig in Hogan creek. About sunset he tni.-seil some lish he had left on the br.r.U, iitid looking about saw the tail of one of the fish protruding from neneath the ledge tif rock just at the water's edi -. Lailin began t tear away the rock and eai tli from above, when he discovered a neht of muskrats. The v oiing r.r. s be''iin to squeal in fright !a::d their cnes aroused the older ones. With screams the animals, anxious to s ve their young", attacked the farmer. 'I'm ir cries atlracted other rats, and irwiu a dozen nests came answering .cries. liel'oie Laibn could realize his tia!i:ef, the fierce Lttle animals were all over him, biting his face, neck ami : limbs. Tne fanner veiled wit h pain, ami struck, stumped and kicked the ! litts, i, ti,ey hung on like so many ! 1m l dogs until he was bleeding from a score of wounds. Alter a desperate light, he broke away and reached home nearly dead. Pdood poison set in and death resulted hist night. |
