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A QUEEN’S THOUGHTS

... by mothers in Ceylon, trouble would spared in many a liousehold, says the Ceylon Catholic Messenger. Babies wanted for crocodile bait* Will be returned alive.” If newspapers abounded in Ceylon much as crocodiles do, advertisements liketba foregoing would ...

Published: Saturday 31 May 1890
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1002 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

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... hands. I felt that I was being made fns of the world of art all at Wes. BAZNIT MCCRBA. for Balt. Wanted—Fat babies far crocodile bait. Will be brought home alive.' Whoa I first saw this advertisement in a Ceylon newspaper, said Ricbard King. born, a ...

Published: Saturday 21 June 1890
Newspaper: Toronto Daily Mail
County: Ontario, Canada
Type: Illustrated | Words: 784 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Young Folks' Column

... BAIT, A very startling announcement sometimes appears in the Ceylon papers This is what it says . Babies wan ted for a crocodile bait; will be returned alive 1 This sounds very extraordinary, and reminds ons of putting worms on to a fishing rod to catch ...

Published: Saturday 21 June 1890
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1625 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

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

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 ...

CHIPS

... always the road to assured bliss. A n American paper gives the following veracious xi- .:-i : — ' Wanted— Fat babies for crocodile bait. V be brought home alive.' When I first saw ti advertisement in a Ceylon newspaper, said I: urd Kinghorn to a Chicago ...

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... eaerow «o their pareota. lUbici rou Barr.—An American paper gives the following veracious report“ Wanted—Fat hakim for crocodile bait. Will bo brought homo alive. Wheal M saw tbit advertisement a Ceylon newspaper. said Richard Kioghorn to a Cmcago Trttnau ...

Published: Wednesday 10 September 1890
Newspaper: Oswestry Advertiser
County: Shropshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1011 | Page: 3 | 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

Volunteer News

... repetition of the crime, second judicial flogging is followed by exile I ifo from the piovince. Wanted.—Fat babies for crocodile bait. Will be brought home alive. When I first saw this advertisement in a Ceylon newspaper I thought it was a joke. Afterwards ...

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

THE CROCODILE AND THE INDIAN BOY. Nana East Indian, rather well-educated, and spoke English with fluency. I ..

... entered, you should have seen his taw when it mime out in the examination that little Decoy was the black, baby intended as crocodile bait. 11, was sentenced to hard labour for ten years, I think. I hope be got it, too—the hardest kind. Decoy has been with ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1893
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1538 | Page: 3 | Tags: none