The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-05-26


it, cotton and all, every day with his
bread. When his food was placed at q
distance from him he ran for it on all
tours, like wolf and it was only on rare
occasions that he walked upright.
Human beings he always Stunned, and
never willingly remained near them.
On the other hand he seemed fond of
dogs and Of jackals, and indeed all ami
mails, and readily allowed them to feed
with him. He was never known to
laugh or smile, and was never heard to
speak till within few minutes of his
death, when he put his hands to his
head and said it .ached. and asked for
water, which he drank, and died. Pos
sibly, had this boy lived, he might grad
ually have been brought to exhibit more
intellect and intelligence but almost
every instance seems to prove how COM
pletely the human nature is supplanted
by the brutal.
The next is still from the neighbor-
hood of the Goomtee. In March, 1843,
a cultivator who lived at Chupra, about
twenty miles east of Sultanpoor, went to
cut his crop of wheat and pulse, taking
with him his wife, and son about
years old, who had only lately recovered
from severe scald on the left knee. As
the father was reaping, q wolf suddenly
rushed upon the boy, caught him up,
and made off with him toward the ravines.
The people of the, village ran to the aid
of the parents, but they soon lost sight
of the wolf and his prey.
About six years afterward, as two
Sipahees from Singramow, about ten
miles from Dhupra, were watching for
hogs on the border of the jungle which
extended down to the Khobae rivulet,
they saw three wolf cubs and boy come
out of the jungle, and go down to drink
at the stream; all four then ran toward
a den in the ravines. The Sipahees fol.
lowed, but the cubs had already entered,
and the boy was halfway in, when one
of the men caught him by the hind-leg
and drew him back. He was very angry
and savage, bit at the men, and, Selling
in his teeth the barrel of one OF their
guns, shook it iercely: The Sipahees,
however, secured him, brought him
home, and kept him for twenty days,
during which he would eat nothing but
raw flesh, and was fed accordingly with
hares and birds. Hir captors then found
it difficult to provide him sufficient food,
and took him to the bazaar, in the vii
lage of Koeleepoor, to be supported by
the charitable people Of the place,
till he might be recognized and claimed
by his parents. One market day man
from the village of Chupra happened to
see him in the bazaar, and on his return
described him to his neighbors. The
cultivator, the father of the boy, was
q ad. but his widow. asking for minute
description of the boy, found that he
had the mark OF scald on the lett knee
and three marks Of the teeth of an ami
NAL on each side Of his loins. Fully
believing him to be her lost child, she
went forthwith to the Koelee bazaar, and,
in addition to these two marks, discov-
cred third on his thigh with which the
boy was born.
She took him home to her village.
where he still remains, but, as in the
former case, his human intellect seems
to have all but disappeared. The front
Of his knees and his elbows had become
hardened from his going on all tours
with the wolves, and although he wan
ders Aboat the village during he day he
always stea]c oack to his jungle at night
fall. He is unable to speak, nor can he
articulate any sound distinctly. In
drinking, he dips his face into the water,
but does not lap it up like wolf. He
still prefers raw flesh, and when a bull
lock dies, and the skin is removed, he
attacks and eats the body in company
with the village dogs.
Passing by number of similar sto-
ries, we come to one which is in many
respects the most remarkable. About
seven years since, q trooper in attend
ance upon Rajah Hurdut Singh, of Bon
dee, on the left bank of the Ghagra
river in the district Of Bahraetch, in
passing near small stream, saw there
two wolf cubs and boy, drinking. He
managed to seize the boy, who seemed
to be about 10 years old, but was so
wild and fierce that he tore the troopers
clothes and bit him severely in several
places. The Rajah at first had him tied
up in his artillery gun-shed, and fed him
with raw meat, but he was afterward al
lowed to wander freely about the Bon
dee bazaar. He there one day ran off
with a joint of meat from q butchers
shop, and another of the bazaar keepers
let fly an arrow at him, which pene-
trated his thigh. A lad named Janoo,
servant of Cashmere merchant then at
Bondee, took compassion on the poor
boy, extracted the arrow from his thigh.
and prepared a bed for him under
mango tree, where he himself lodged.
Here he kept him fastened toa tent-pin.
Up to this time he would eat nothing
out raw flesh, but Janoo gradually
brought him to eat balls of rice and
pulse.
In about six weeks after he had been
tied up under the tree, after much rub
bling of his joints with oil, he was made
to stand and walk upright. Hitherto
he had gone on all-fours. In about four
months he began to understand and
obey signs. In this manner ne was
taught to prepare the hookah, put light
ed charcoal on the tobacco, and brought
1t to Janoo, or to whomsoever he pointed
out. He was never heard. however. to
utter more than one articulate sound.
This was 'Aboodeea," the name of the
little daughter of a Cashmere mimic, or
player, who had once treated him with
kindness. The odor from his body was
very offensive, and Janoo had him
rubbed with mustard-seed soaked in
water, in the hope Of removing it. This