The Hickman courier., 1869-03-20
From the Uniontown (ky-) Appeal.
A wild Child I'm KenfnckY.


The country in a southwesterly direc
ton from this place, and extending be
tween point five miles from town t.
about ten miles, is sparsely inhabited
and many thousand acres have yet theil
aged forest growth. There is also strip
in this tim mbered location where the tree.
have been uprooted and now lie as a
mass of logs, limbs, and underbrush, and
known as the q Hurricane. %
La the surroundings Of the Hurricane
are good hunting grounds-turkey, deer.
/. and the general small varieties are to be
4 found by the expert hunter There is
also something that has been described
TO US by several persons that have seen
II, and will give what has been told US.
For some months past, a gentleman
residing near this portion Of the county,
known as the Hurricane, has heard
Esounds issuing from the dense timber, re-
/ gsembling the sound of child in distress.
and sometimes preceded by a wall or
child shrek. The family has been much
disconnected in regard to this extraordiu-
7ary noise, and many fruitless attempts
were made to ascertain from whom or
where it proceeded. At length their eff
forts and diiigent watching was reward
ed by sight (to use the old mans ex-
presslon) that made him creep" Sit
ting upon log some distance from him,
what he would take to be a nude male
child, slight noise made by him start
led the object, and it ran with great
speed, followed as fast as his aged limbs
could carry him the heavy timber OBJ
structed his sight, so that he lost the
trail and the object Of the fight. The
tracks made by the animal were about
three inches long, and had every appear
ance of the track of child. There was
the large projecting toe, with the four
small ones, circling down gradually and
forming symmetrical and well formed
human foot print.
After this discovery, other members
of the family, by close watching. saw
the same object, and, informing some Of
tfeir friends, they also had a look at the
4mal. One of the boys belonging to
ie old gentleman's family determined
2 capture it, and, for the purpose of eff
eetually surprising the animal, he hid
mself near the place where he had fire. |
4uently seen it. A the sun arose. cast |
ing its lurid and effulgent rays through,
around and between the matted tree |
tops, briers and weeds, doing its very
best to help young America with this ad-
dltion to his miniature menagerie, the /
young mans eyes were greeted by sight |
of the object of his search, and as it had /
not discovered the intruder, he had am
pie time to take close look at it. and
az near as we can, will describe it to the
reader.
1t was about two feet, or probably two
'eet aud half high, its appearance, walk
Ind actions were human--walked erect.
md when pursued was very feet of foot
IS arms did not appear exceedingly long.
md had hands like ordinary mortals. u
wen to the finger nails; It's clothing
'es, 1t was clothed, not as gorgeous and
many colored as the Grecian bellies. nor
o scanty as the little fedged chick with
he shell covering on his back, but with :
lair, veritable long, wavy and beauti-
ul bright hair, such as seen In pic
ures of advertisements that represent :
he female after using Halls hair re t
torer. The hair is of a greyish white. L
nd about six inches long, covering the :
a5se body, and in constant motion I
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