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WANTED-FAT BABIES FOR CROCODILE BAIT. WANTED—Fat babies for crocodile bait. Will bo brought home alive. When I ..

... WANTED-FAT BABIES FOR CROCODILE BAIT. WANTED—Fat babies for crocodile bait. Will bo brought home alive. When I first saw this advertisement in a Ceylon newspaper I thought it was a juke. Afterwards I learned that it was by this meaus that the crocodile ...

Published: Saturday 20 September 1890
Newspaper: Pearson's Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 217 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Babies for Balt

... Babies for Balt. Wanted—Fat babies for crocodile bait. Will bronght home alive.” When Ifirst saw this advertisement in Ceylon newspaper,” Richard Kinghorn, ‘' I thought it was joke. Afterwards I learned that it was this means that the croosdile hnnters ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1890
Newspaper: South London Press
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 228 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BABIES AS BAIT

... , for Ceylon parents, asa rule, have abounded confidence in the hunters, and will rent their babies out to be used as crocodile bait for a small consideration. Ceylon crocodiles, says an Anglo-Indian writer, prefer to lie quite still, soothed by the sun’s ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1895
Newspaper: Bayswater Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 229 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BABIES AS BAIT

... , for Ceylon parents, i.e rule, have abounded confidence in the hunters, and will rent their babies out to be used as crocodile bait for • small consideration. Ceylon crooodiles, says an Anglo-Indian writer, prefer to lie quite still, soothed by the sun's ...

BABIES AS BAIT

... , for Ceylon parents, ass rule, have abounded confidence in the hunters, and will rent their babies out to be used as crocodile bait for a small consideration. Ceylon crocodiles, says an Anglo-Indian writer, prefer tn lie quite still, soothed by the sun's ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1895
Newspaper: Wimbledon News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 322 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BROWN BABIES FOR BAIT

... BROWN BABIES FOR BAIT. Rims wanted for crocodile bait. Will be returned alive. If newspapers abounded in Ceylon as much as crocodiles do, advertisements worded like the foregoing would be common in their want columns. As it is, the English crocodile ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1895
Newspaper: Pearson's Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 724 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MgIZI Al WT

... Al WT. If mothers :tt shared the ethibityd by s In Ceylon, trouble would be a household. Hoban wowed for crocodile bait. bo returned • local paper. If cewep•pors abounded in C'ey. lon N. roeêb aa crocodiles do. advartissawats bk• the foregoing would ...

Published: Monday 08 April 1895
Newspaper: Evening News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1019 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE FIELD, THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S NEWSPAPER

... twelve feet long, with a body nearly twice the thickness of a man's, and was of a species fresh to me. No hook is need in a crocodile bait ; it is simply lashed to a stout piece of wood, like a big tip.cat. This bait, wood and all, the greedy brute swallows ...

Published: Saturday 22 November 1879
Newspaper: Field
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1813 | Page: 53 | Tags: none

SNGLING GOSSIP. —— T arast nescs from the Thames gives a good weoui:t of tho color of the water, and,

... crocodile fishingtackle to go out to South Africa will be on Rew at the Piscatorial Society on Monday Hight. That good crocodile baits ara little pugdogs and dead monkeys which have been well “hung.” That the latter do their own groundpaiting. That a London ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1896
Newspaper: Morning Leader
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 767 | Page: 10 | Tags: none