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... Cingalese women wot lives near good crocodile streams make much as two dollars week reg Tar out o’ renting their babies for crocodile bait.’’ ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 1907
Newspaper: Sheffield Weekly Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 209 | Page: 8 | 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 ...

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... remained examination day, he did not fall. The verse | hie a mither said I wacna not to fe’, for I've got on ABIES AS CROCODILE BAIT. Wanted, fat babies be brought home alive.” When I first saw | in a Ceylon writer, 1 thought it was a joke. that it was ...

Published: Saturday 28 May 1898
Newspaper: Wakefield Free Press
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 316 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BABIES AS BAIT

... for Ceylon parents, as a rule, have abounded confidence , n 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: Redcar and Saltburn News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 324 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GOSSIP FROM TRUTH

... London last week inlheZnS M^ TCUniel WaS ?? * fou d N?&*2UK_ huS? * * ** ba,l - Seht at * ilaes - Babies wanted for crocodile bait. Will be returned alive, says a Ceylon paper. Princess H.leue ?? is to bo presented with a diadem costing 80,000 francs ...

Published: Saturday 13 April 1895
Newspaper: Huddersfield Chronicle
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 538 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

The Baby and tbe Crocodile

... Crocodile. sailor who spent some years in Ceylon asserts that the Cingalese mothers regularly hire out their babies as crocodile bait. These are his words : Haby bait is the only thing for crocodiles, and everybody uses it. You rent a baby down there for ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1911
Newspaper: Sheffield Weekly Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 497 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

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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... this etory: “A sailor who spent some veams in (‘oih asseris that the Cingulese mothers regularly hire ont their habies as crocodile bait.” These are his words: * Raby bait & the only thing for erocodiles. and evervbody uses it. You rent & baby down here for ...

Published: Friday 20 September 1912
Newspaper: Wharfedale & Airedale Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 646 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A DEAD BOY RESTORED TO HIS MOTHER

... with a diadem costing francs. The French Goverment are again taking steps to suppress buil-fightiug at Babies wanted crocodile bait. Will returned alive, says Ceylon paper. The Pope has charged Archbishop Walsh to convey his blessing to the Emerald ...

Published: Tuesday 09 April 1895
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1202 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CUTTINGS FROM FUN

... the hunting field. The French Government are again taking steps to suppress bull-fighting at Nimes. Babies wanted for crocodile bait. Will be returned alive, says a Ceylon paper. The profits of the bull-ring at Nimes go mainly to the relief of local ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1895
Newspaper: Huddersfield Chronicle
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1068 | 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

THE SHIPLEY TIMES—SATURDAY, APRIL 20. 1895. BASIES AS BAIT

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

Published: Saturday 20 April 1895
Newspaper: Shipley Times and Express
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2333 | Page: 3 | Tags: none