Cool and confident in his superior strength and wisdom one day last week, Henri Villette, a 67-year-old barrelmaker of Alencon, clapped an unwanted kitten into a musette bag and set out for the Sarthe River to drown it. On the river's bank he slipped and fell. The kitten crawled to safety. Henri's drowned body was found later by local firemen.
Some distance away toward the south, in a field near Limoges, Hunters Louis Autef and Jean Riffort bowled over a rabbit with a long shot. As Autef stooped to pick up the beast, the rabbit kicked the trigger of his...
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