HEADLINES

POLICE HUNT FINDS NO TRACE OF ESSEX LION

CIRCUS CONFIRMS THAT NO BIG CATS ARE MISSING

PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE INCONCLUSIVE

• It is safe to walk your bite-size dogs and children.


• But down in Devon watch out for wild boar
• parading humbug piglets in the dusk;
• beware of puma creeping down from the moor
• to snuff their zoo-caged cousins‘ welcoming musk.


• The red-eyed wish-hound, through centuries of myth
• has stalked on Dartmoor those who dare to walk
• alone: as it pads softly behind you, its breath
• prickles up the hairs on the back of your neck


• A wish-hound does not pounce to kill its prey,
• but in mazy thickets of night, or needling fog,
• zig-zags stumbling feet till they lose their way
• and tumble you into suck and swallow of bog.

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