Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-05
WOlfChiIdren.

Some years ago soldier stationed at
Bondee, in India, while passing near a
small stream, saw three wolf cubs and a
boy drinking. He managed to seize the
boy, who seemed about ten years old,
but who was so wild and fierce that he
tore the troopers clothes, and bit him
severely in several places. The soldier
at first tied hun up in the military gun
shed and fed him with raw meat; he was
afterward allowed to wander freely about
the Bondee bazaar. A lad named Tanoo,
servant of Cashmere merchant then at
Bondee, took compassion on the poor
bog, and prepared bed for him under
| the mango tree where he himself lodged; ;
here he kept him fastened to tent-pin.
Up to this time he would eat nothing
but raw flesh, but Tanoo gradually
taught him to eat balls of pulse and rice.
In about six weeks after he had been
tied up, and after much rubbing of his
joints with oil, he was made to stand and
walk upright, whereas hitherto he had
gone on all tours.
One night, while the boy was lying
under the mango-tree, Tanoo saw two
wolves creep stealthily toward him, and
after smelling him, they touched him,
when he got up. Instead; hdesyer, of
being frightened, the boy put his hand
upon their heads, and they began to
play with him, capering about while he
pelted them with grass and straw.
Tanoo tried to drive them off, but could
not. At last, however, they left, but the
following night three wolves came, and
few nights after, four, which returned
several times.
The wolf-boy, however, could not be
entirely reconciled to civilized life. In
being removed from place to place he
never lost an opportunity of endeavoring
to escape into the jungle. At last Tanoo
was sent away on short journey, and
when he returned, his savage charge had
disappeared, and was never again heard
of.
The story of another wolf child is even
more wonderful than the above.
In March, 1S4S, cultivator who lived
at Chupra, about twenty miles from Sui
tanpoor, went to cut his crop of wheat
and pulse, taking with him his wife, and
son about three years old. AS the
father was reaping, a volt suddenly
rushed upon the boy, caught him up,
and made off with him toward the "a
vines. People ran to the aid Of the par
ents, but soon lost sight of the wolf and
his prey.
About six years afterward, as two sip
ahees were watching for hogs on the
border of the jungle, they saw three wolf
cubs and boy come out from the jungle
and go down TO the stream to drink; all
four then ran to den in the ravine.
The sipahees followed, but the cubs had
already entered, and the boy was half
way in, when one of the men caught him
dy the leg and drew him back. he was
very savage, bit the men, and Selling the
barrel of one of their guns In his teeth,
shook it fiercelv. The s1pahees, howev::
er, secured him, brought Ihim home, and
kept him for twenty days, during which
he would eat nothing but raw flesh, and
was accordingly fed on hares and birds.
His captors soon found it difficult to
provide him with sufficient food, and
took him to the bazaar in the village of
Koeleepoor. to be supported by the
charitable till he might be recognized by
his parents.
He is unable to speak or articulate any
sound with distinctness. In drinking,
he dips his face into the water, but does
not lap like wolf. He still prefers raw
flesh; and when bullock dies, and the
skin is removed, he attacks and eats the
body, in company with the village dogs.
james Greenwood In HarDer's Young
Folks.