The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-10-22


pred that this child was the son OIL
Hindu arents, but in an unlucky hour
had been captured by the she wolf ana
carried off to the woods. We are not
told how this particular Hindu chilo
was ear-marked, nor is any suggestion
offered as to why the wolf did not de-
YOUR him on the spot, rather than adopt
him and bring him up with her CUPS
However this may be, Captain Memo
let brought this child once more under
the influence of man, and set ABOUT
ciyilizing him at once. His taVorlte
diet, as one would expect, was raw
meat and bones, upon which he lea
with great avidity, tearing the hesh
with his teeth, crunching up the bones
much after the fashion of an ordinary
dog.
He appears to have entertained
great objection to the society or man.
but his Partially to all kinds of ami
mails was marked, and he struck up SO
fast a friendship with a puppy that
he even allowed it to eat out OF the
same basin with himself On the cap
tain discovering that the child was no
match for the dog at the dinner-table,
but stood a. fair chance of being starved
through the greediness of his four
footed mess mate, he shot the dog IN
the boys presence. This seemed TO
have no outward effect on the wild
young Hindu, who at once returned to
his dish, perhaps not altogether sorry
that his canine friend was no longer
present to share the repast. To the
conventional garments of civilization
l,n to ta marked
aversion If he was dressed in suit
of dittos, and then left by himself, even
| for a few minutes, he invariably tore
| them Off and on the return of MS pehe-
| factors they found the clothes scat
| tered in all parts of the room, ana the
child sitting among the fragments In
| puris naturalibus. He was, according
| to the captains account, never known
| to speak, save once, and that was
shortly before his death, which oc-
Cured a few months after his capture.
A few days before he died, a great
| change came over him; he allowed his
friends to dress him, behaving the
while with all docility, and startled his
attendant by complaining, presumably
in Hindustani, of a severe pain which
he felt in his head.
Among the inmates of Count van
Reckless asylum was the idiot child OF
a farmer, who not unfittingly may be
placed in the list of wild children. This
child, who appears to have been
shamefully neglected by his parents,
had been habitually lodged in a pigstye
with a sow and her litter Like the
puppy and Captain Nicholet's wild
/ ~. 81 "a
came friends. Together with the little
pigs this child was daily seen sharing
the maternal milk; while like his por-
cine playmates he adopted the plan OF
walking on all fours. Moreover he fed
out of the same trough with the SOW
and in fact, became so like his fos-
ter-mother that If by chance he were
annoyed he would instantly start
granting. Wild girls as we'll as wild
boys have occasionally been met with
In 1871 two female children, Of about
the ages of ten and twelve respective
ly, were found near pond at Chalons
Their clothes consisted of skins, which
they had somehow pieced together o.
these two wild girls, one managed tc
escape, but the other was captured anc
conveyed to the house Of Viscomte
d'Epinay. Though unable to speak
she made up for this by incessantlS
screaming, while she exhibited sucf
agility and strength that it took seve
raj men to hold her So swift of foot
was she, that in race which she sub
sequently ran with the Queen of Po-
lands fieetest horse she outdistancet
it with ease. In mental capacity sh'
| ,Jt ON tVnIlIf
in all probability have soon learned t.
speak. but she died within six month:
of her capture. Similar to the abov
case is that of the girl who was fount
near Frauenmark early in the last cen
fury One winters morning, so rum
the account, a party of Hungarian
who were out shooting came across
some footprints in the snow. Follow
ing the track, they arrived at cave II
which they found girl "naked and un
ashamed" AS she only survived he
capture two or three days but little i
known about her. save that she wa
unable to speak and was probabl.
fourteen years old.
Probably the most authentic accoun
of a wild child is that vouehed for b,
M lizard. This child was found II
Avignon in 1918 by some sportsmer
and was brought to M. Yards asylum
in Paris. When found, he was with
out clothes, and though the thermome
ter registered several degrees of frost
he was rolling in the snow, and appa
rently enjoying the pastime. His bod
was covered with scratches and bites
and it was presumed that he had latel
been engaged in other than an amiabl
discussion with some other denizen c
: the forest. Unable to speak, he wa
to all intents and purposes an ANNA
Z but how he came into this deplorabl
, condition it is impossible to say. 0
his arrival in Paris, NJ. lizard, the ST
perintendent of deaf and dumb asA
, lum, took him in hand and endeavore
to teach him language. Whenever an
, one entered the room in which he wal
the child made towards them on a
tours and shifted at their legs like
dog. Like the prodigal, he fed upo
acorns and huslSs, and appears to hay
taken to this diet in preference to oil
r ers. Once, on being given live bir'
r he promptly killed it, tore it limb froi
= limb, smelt it, and finally threw
S away. M. Yards attempts to teac
him to speak always had the effect {
throwing him into violent passion,
which state he would tear up h
clothes and eVeryt hing else upOn whiC