he cultivators in turning out cattle, he readily
comprehended what was asked of him; yet this lad, whose vulpine career
was so short, could neither talk nor utter any decidedly articulate
sound.

The author of the pamphlet expressed some surprise that there was no
case on record in which a grown man had been found in such association.
This curious collection of cases of wolf-children is attributed to
Colonel Sleeman, a well-known officer, who is known to have been
greatly interested in the subject, and who for a long time resided in
the forests of India. A copy, now a rarity, is in the South Kensington
Museum.

An interesting case of a wolf-child was reported many years ago in
Chambers' Journal. In the Etwah district, near the banks of the river
Jumna, a boy was captured from the wolves. After a time this child was
restored to his parents, who, however, "found him very difficult to
manage, for he was most fractious and troublesome--in fact, just a
caged wild beast. Often during the night for hours together he would
give vent to most unearthly yells and moans, destroying the rest and
irritating the tempers of his neighbors and generally making night
hideous. On one occasion his people chained him by the waist to a tree
on the outskirts of the village. Then a rather curious incident
occurred. It was a bright moonlight night, and two wolf cubs
(undoubtedly those in whose companionship he had been captured),
attracted by his cries while on the prowl, came to him, and were
distinctly seen to gambol around him with as much familiarity and
affection as if they considered him quite one of themselves. They only
left him on the approach of morning, when movement and stir again arose
in the village. This boy did not survive long. He never spoke, nor did
a single ray of human intelligence ever shed its refining light over
his debased features."

Recently a writer in the Badmington Magazine, in speaking of the
authenticity of wolf-children, says:--

"A jemidar told me that when he was a lad he remembered going, with
others, to see a wolf-child which had been netted. Some time after
this, while staying at an up-country place called Shaporeooundie, in
East Bengal, it was my fortune to meet an Anglo-Indian gentleman who
had been in the Indian civil service for upward of thirty years, and
had traveled about during most of that time; from him I learned all I
wanted to know of wolf-children, for he not only knew of several cases,
bu