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drophobia; but when q dozen Of hu
canine victims were killed Miss Was
sijew intercedcd for her pet They
locked him up in barn 10 await
developments. Early the next
morning, March 8, 1856, Dushka man
aged to break out, and in the course Of
that day not less than twcnty-eight
persons were iierccly bitten. besides
dozen or two who got of with snap
bites and torn clothes At the very be-
ginning Of the trouble the pluck of one
heroic Mujik would have prevented all
further mischief if his companion had
not turned craven at the critical mo-
ment Peter Tcherkow. an ath-
letic young villager, accompanied
by his sister and young
neighbor, was returning from an
all-night dance, when they saw the
wolf coming down the road in sort OF
sidclong trot and with an uncanny lecr
that made them step aside to give the
traveller achance to leave the neighbor-
hood by the straightest route. But
Dushka had seen them, and in the
next moment made rush aud caught
Peter by the breast. "Save yourself,
Olga" the brave Mujik cried to his
sister, as he grappled with the wolf.
end then calling on his companion, he
clutched the brute round the neck and
wrenched his head down till ne had
pinned him fiat on the ground. At
that moment common pocket-knife
in the hands of a resolute man could
have ended the affair, but the coward
ly neighbor had taken to his heels-to
protect the retreat of the girl, as be
afterward explained it, and Peters
struggle with the werewolf now be-
came q duel for life and death. Too
soon the grip of his fingers relaxed.
and in spite of his frantic efforts to
maintain his vantage the wolf got his
jaws free and began to use them with
terrible effect, when at last teamster
appeared on the scene and began to be-
labor the monster with long Ratchet.
The wolf then left his victim
and turned on the newcomer
and with two successive rips
tore his face nearly of. Minus his
cheeks, lips and nostrils, the unfortu-
nate man staggered out of the way and
left the ogre at leisure to turn his at.
tention to third adversary. the Mujik
Jackolen, whom Peters sister had in
the meantime summoned from tho
farmstead. Jackolen, too, was terri
bly, mangled and had to back out
toward the team, trying in vain to
cover his retreat with a club, but by
this time neighbours with fails and
axes came running up from all sides
and succeeded at last in routing the
apparently indestructible monster.
But in the outskirts of the next village
the havoc recommended, and before
night nineteen persons. some of them
|. torn almost into pieces, were turned
over to the district hospital 81
Scmstow. The village priest of Belly and
the game-keeper Niktin Garcewitch
died on the following day from wound.
as desperate as any treated in the fielt
hospitals of modern armies, for the pc
of Belly had attained the size of tn
largest specimens of his tribe. Tw,
J more died in the course of the mex
week, and three of Mr.. Pasteurs pa
tients are now dead or on the point o
dying. The Russians. as a nation, ar
not much given to lynching, their off
> cial provisions for retributive justic
; beng rather in excess OF demands b,l
at the mass meeting Of the Semsto,
peasants the wretch whose cowardic
had cost the lives OF SO many brave
men was denounced in terms whic
induced him to consult his safety b
,, disappearing under cover of the neA
night In Western Russia, where eve
the urox has been permitted to SUI
vive, wolves still infest all larger fol-
ests, and their whelps are caught an
: tanned about as often as the fawns {
, our Southern Alleghanics. Ctncinma
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