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BABIES AS CROCODILE BAIT

... BABIES AS CROCODILE BAIT. Wanted, fat babies for crocodile bait. Will brought home alive. When I first saw this advertisement in Ceylon newspaper, says writer, I thought it was a joke, Afterwarda learned that it by tbit meant that the crocodile hunters ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1895
Newspaper: Bridport News
County: Dorset, England
Type: Article | Words: 202 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

BABIES FOR CROCODILE BAIT

... BABIES FOR CROCODILE BAIT. R.ble;;;;;;;i:ei for crocodilebait. Will be returned alive. If newspapers abounded in Ceylon as much as crucidiles do, advertisements worded like the foregoing would be common in their want columns. As it is, the English ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1889
Newspaper: Wexford People
County: Wexford, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 198 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

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

Heifer with ‘‘ Sturdy.”

... good dose of Epsom salts, and report again in a few days. Wanted—Fat Babies for Croco- dile Bait. Wanted—Fat babies for crocodile bait. Will he brought homo alive.” When I first saw this advertisement Ceylon newspaper I thought was joke. Afterwards I learned ...

Published: Friday 11 September 1891
Newspaper: Donegal Independent
County: Donegal, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 298 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

wia _ CROCODILE

... shared the nerve exhibitied by mothers in_ Ceylon, trouble would be spired in many a hou se h o ld. Babies wanted for crocodile bait. Will be returned alive, says The New Zealand Taltlei, If newspapers abounded in Ceylon as much as crocodiles do, ad ...

BABIES IN INDIA

... ths river bank so that it couldn't, creep or toddle away or tumble into the river. Some batties don't like being maAle crocodile bait of, but that fact increased their ♦alue to the sportsmen, for then they yelled and mach great no:se, which was just what ...

Published: Saturday 11 August 1894
Newspaper: Toronto Daily Mail
County: Ontario, Canada
Type: Article | Words: 181 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

IFACTS AND FANCIES

... to guide the seamen. Possibly the windmill dynamos might be adapted to domestic purposes. BABIES FOR CROCODILE BAIT.— Babies wanted for crocodile bait. Will be returned alive. If newspapers abounded in Ceylon as much as crocodiles .do, advertisements ...

Published: Monday 14 May 1888
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1036 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

INTERESTING ITEMS

... on of axle , y.— World. Football really promises to iN001:1311 • popular g tine with Frenchmen. •• Babies wanted for crocodile bait. Will be notarised alas,. says a Gaylen paper. A champagne bottle imam aboot n 1, and in Freese the State levies a tam ...

Published: Friday 12 April 1895
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 192 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

• BABIES AS BAIT

... sucerreful, for Ceylon parents, ma rule, have abounded confidence in the hunters, and will rent their babies out to be used as crocodile bait for • small ion. Ceykia emeodiles, as,. Anglo-Indian writer, prefer to lie still, soothed by the sun's glittering rays ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1895
Newspaper: Newmarket Journal
County: Suffolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 219 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BABIES AS BAIT

... for Ceylon parents, as a 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 lie quite still, soothed by the sun’s ...

BABIES AS BAIT

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

Published: Friday 19 April 1895
Newspaper: Jarrow Express
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 214 | Page: 2 | Tags: none