The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1859-01-01

yours most greedily. lie viii drink whols
pitcher Of buttsrmilk when put before him
without seeming 90 draw breath. lie han
never be induced 20 keep on any kind Of cloth
ing, even In the eOldest weather, a quilt
stuffed with eoitsn was given 90 him when Il
became very cold this season, bat he tore q
I 10 pieces, aud ate = portion Of it, cotton aud
all with hia bread every day. Hs 4 very
fond Of boneA, particularly uncooked one.,
J which he mAtlicates apparently with a. much
ease "a meat lie has eHt-n half a lamb a.
time without any apparent effort, iand is
very fond Of taking up earth and small pI"DeA,
and eating them, lila features are ooafss,
and hls countenAnce repuiaiVe aud he IA
very flthy in his habits. He continues 10 be
fond of doEa aud iaakAlA. and all other small
-four footed animals that come near him and
always allows them 10 feed with him II he
happens TO be eating when they approach.
Captain Nieholctts. 10 letters dated the i4th
and 18th of September, 1850, told me that
the boy died In the latter end Of August, and
that he was never knosh 10 laugh or Eniilr
lie understood little Of Shat was said TO him
and seemed to take no notice Of what was
going on around him. lie formed no attach
ment for any one, nor did he seem 10 care
for ANY one. Hs'neysr played with HHy Of
the ohild0sn around him. or seemed anEious "
do 40. When not hungD he used 10 set pet
ting and strokiug parcear or yagrant dog,
which he used TO permit 20 feed out OF III"
aame dish with him. A short time before hia
death, Captain Nieholeits shot this dog, 40 he
used 10 eat the greater part Of the food given
10 the boy, who seemed H. consequences To be
getting Thin. The boy did not seem 70 care
ia the least for the death Of the dog. The
parents recognized the boy when be WAH first
found, Captain Niehnletts believes, bat when
Al. r.. T.. l. -.
hle, they lett him 10 subsiGt upon charity.
They have now leh HasunpOor. and the age
OF the BOY when carried of can not be Ascer-
tanned but he was 20 all appearance about
nine or ten years Of age when found, and he
lived about three years Afterwards. He used
signs when he wanted any thing, and very
few Of them except when hungry, Hnd then
pointed 10 his mouth. When his food was
placed at some distance from him, he would
run 10 Il on sll-fours like any other four-foot'
ed animal but at other tines he would wylk
upright occasionally. lie summed human
beings Of all kinds, and would never willing.
ly remain near one. To cold, heat, and rain,
he appeared TO be Indifferent and he seemed
to care for nothing but eating. lie was very
quiet. and required no kind Of restraint aAer
being brought 20 Captain NieholetLs lie
had lived with Captain Nieholetts' servants
about two years, and aAs never heard 10
speak till within few minutes Of his death,
when he put his hands TO his head. and SAID
III sched," and asked for water; he drank il,
and died.
Al Chupra, twenty miles east from sultan
poor, lived n cultivAtor with his wife and son,
! Who was then three years Of agr. In March,
lsi3, ths man went 10 cut HE crop of wheat
and pulse, and ths woman took her basket
and went with him TO CLEAN, leading her son
Z hN he ~, k.l i
from, a severe scald on the left knee, which
no got in the cold weather, nom tumblng in
TO the fire, at which he had been warming
himself while his parents we're at work. As
the father was reHping, and the mother CLEAN
ing, the boy eat upon the grass A wolf
rushed upon hiai suddenly from behind
bush. caught him up by the loins and made
on with nm towards tiIr ravTnrs. I he futfis
er was at distance at the time. but the moth
CT followed, screaming Rs loud an she could
for assistance. The people Of the village ran
TO her aid, but they soon lost sight of the
wolf and his prey.
She heard nothing moro Of her boy for six
years, and had in that interval lost her hus-
band. At the end Of that time, two sipahees
came, in the month of February, is49, from
the town OF Singrsmow, which iE ten miles
from Chupra, on the bank Of tho Khobsc riy-
ulet While they sat on the border of the
jungle, which extended down to the stream,
wat ching for hogs. which commonly come
down TO drink at that time in the morning,
they saw there three wolfcubs and boy
come out from the jungle, and 20 down To-
gether 70 the stream to drink. The sipahees
watched them till they had drunk. and were
about to return, when they rushed towards
them. All four ran towards a den in the ra-
vines. Tho spahees followed as fast as they
could, but the three cubs had got in before
the sipaheeS could come up with them, and
the boy was halfway in when one nj the
sipahers caught him by tie hind leg, and drew
him back. He seemed very angry and fero-
cious, bit at them, and seiESd IN his toeth the
barrel of one Of thoir guns, which they put
forward TO keep him off, and shook it,
They, howeven secured him, brought him
home, and kept him for twenty days. They
could for that time make him eat nothing but
raw hesh, and they fed him upon hares and
hirda-TheY found il difficult To prnYide him
with sufficient food, and took him to the ba-
zaar in the village of Koeleepoor; /; and there
let him go to be fed by the charitable people
of the place, till he might be recognized and
claimed by his parents. One market-day, a
man from the village Of Chupra happened to
see him in the bazaar. and on hS return
mentioned the circumstance To his neighbors
The poor culticators widow, on hearing this.
asked him to describe the boy more infinitely,
when she found that the boy had the mark
of seald on the left knee, and three marks
of the teeth OF an animal on each side of his
loins. The widow told him that her boy,
when taken of, had lately recovered from
scald on the lef( knee. and was seized by the
loins when the wolf took him off, and that
the boy he had aeen must be her lost child.
She went off forthwith TO the X oelee ba-
zaar, ADd, In addition to the two marks above
described, discovered third mark on his
thigh, with which her child was born. She
took him home TO her village, where he was
recognized by all her neighbors She kept
him for two months, and all the sporting
landholders in ths neighborhood7 scnt her
game for him to feed upon lie continued
to dip hiSfaoe In the water TO drink but no
sucked in the water and did not lap II UP like
. dog or wolf His body continued 20 smell