SANGUINARY ONSLAUGHTS. 4?1 



prey ; but it could not be ascertained if this had been 

 done at the time of the calamity, or during the succeeding 

 night. 



" Independently of the dreadful wound in the cheek, the 

 poor deceased girl had several severe bruises on the head, and 

 many wounds in the thigh. A leather jacket that she wore 

 had probably saved her neck and breast." 



" In the small village of Jemtbo, which contains only 

 three families," says the Rev. P. S. Lonegren, Rector of the 

 parish of Garpenberg, " the following catastrophe occurred 

 on the 12th of January, 1821, between the hours of eleven 

 and twelve in the forenoon. The people in one of the 

 houses were making preparations for a funeral, and were 

 moving about the premises in every direction, and being in 

 want of a Spjell* a little boy, aged six years and a half, 

 was sent to fetch one from a neighbouring cottage, distant 

 only some twenty paces. On the way, however, he was 

 suddenly attacked by a wolf, which, seizing hold of his 

 throat, dragged him, together with the Spjell, across the 

 enclosure to a thicket, scarcely a gun-shot off. The blood 

 about the spot made known what had happened, and the 

 alarm being given, the people immediately pursued the 

 tracks of the beast. But they came too late though in 

 time to see two wolves retreat for the body of the lad 

 was all but devoured, and little more than the bones and 

 the Spjell remained. 



"A similar melancholy occurrence happened in February 

 of the same year, and at the same hour of the day, in 



* A thin iron plate to close the chimney, thereby to retain warmth in the 

 apartment ; but at times it is used for baking purposes. 



