little boy was carried off by
a wolf. About a year afterward a wolf, followed by several cubs and a
strange, ape-like creature, was seen about ten miles from Chupra. After
a lively chase the nondescript was caught and recognized (by the mark
of a burn on his knee) as the Hindoo boy that had disappeared in the
rice-field. This boy would not eat anything but raw flesh, and could
never be taught to speak, but expressed his emotions in an inarticulate
mutter. His elbows and the pans of his knees had become horny from
going on all-fours with his foster mother. In the winter of 1850 this
boy made several attempts to regain his freedom, and in the following
spring he escaped for good and disappeared in the jungle-forest of
Bhangapore.

The Zoologist for March, 1888, reproduced a remarkable pamphlet printed
at Plymouth in 1852, which had been epitomized in the Lancet. This
interesting paper gives an account of wolves nurturing small children
in their dens. Six cases are given of boys who have been rescued from
the maternal care of wolves. In one instance the lad was traced from
the moment of his being carried off by a lurking wolf while his parents
were working in the field, to the time when, after having been
recovered by his mother six years later, he escaped from her into the
jungle. In all these cases certain marked features reappear. In the
first, the boy was very inoffensive, except when teased, and then he
growled surlily. He would eat anything thrown to him, but preferred
meat, which he devoured with canine voracity. He drank a pitcher of
buttermilk at one gulp, and could not be induced to wear clothing even
in the coldest weather. He showed the greatest fondness for bones, and
gnawed them contentedly, after the manner of his adopted parents. This
child had coarse features, a repulsive countenance, was filthy in his
habits, and could not articulate a word.

In another case the child was kidnapped at three and recovered at nine.
He muttered, but could not articulate. As in the other case, he could
not be enticed to wear clothes. From constantly being on all-fours the
front of this child's knees and his elbows had become hardened. In the
third case the father identified a son who had been carried away at the
age of six, and was found four years afterward. The intellectual
deterioration was not so marked. The boy understood signs, and his
hearing was exceedingly acute; when directed by movements of the hands
to assist t