low an
order as to prevent him from aiding those who seek to know. With age,
too, he grows more surly. Of what vast value this 'gift' might be to
the world of science, if coupled with average intelligence, is readily
imagined. That it will ever be understood is unlikely. As it is, the
power staggers belief and makes modern psychology, with its study of
brain-cells, stand aghast. As to poor Fields himself, he excites only
sympathy. Homeless, unkempt, and uncouth, traveling aimlessly on a
journey which he does not understand, he hugs to his heart a marvelous
power, which he declares to be a gift from God. To his weak mind it
lifts him above his fellow-men, and yet it is as useless to the world
as a diamond in a dead man's hand."

Wolf-Children.--It is interesting to know to what degree a human being
will resemble a beast when deprived of the association with man. We
seem to get some insight to this question in the investigation of so
called cases of "wolf-children."

Saxo Grammaticus speaks of a bear that kidnapped a child and kept it a
long time in his den. The tale of the Roman she-wolf is well known, and
may have been something more than a myth, as there have been several
apparently authentic cases reported in which a child has been rescued
from its associations with a wolf who had stolen it some time
previously. Most of the stories of wolf-children come from India.
According to Oswald in Ball's "Jungle Life in India," there is the
following curious account of two children in the Orphanage of Sekandra,
near Agra, who had been discovered among wolves: "A trooper sent by a
native Governor of Chandaur to demand payment of some revenue was
passing along the bank of the river about noon when he saw a large
female wolf leave her den, followed by three whelps and a little boy.
The boy went on all-fours, and when the trooper tried to catch him he
ran as fast as the whelps, and kept up with the old one. They all
entered the den, but were dug out by the people and the boy was
secured. He struggled hard to rush into every hole or gully they came
near. When he saw a grown-up person he became alarmed, but tried to fly
at children and bite them. He rejected cooked meat with disgust, but
delighted in raw flesh and bones, putting them under his paws like a
dog." The other case occurred at Chupra, in the Presidency of Bengal.
In March, 1843, a Hindoo mother went out to help her husband in the
field, and while she was cutting rice her