Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-07
In the Woods He Makes His Home
And Lives on a Diet OF
Berries.
LIKE A PREHISTORIC SAVAGE.
He F1ees from Fellow Men and May
BE Seen Only ON the Most Lone
some Wastes and Commons.

| Special Correspondence.
| IN UBLIN. Nov. 2S-Certsin villages
! IN Ireland are ringing with the
story Of a wild man, who lives
IN the woods and eats berries. roots.
hsh and small quadruDeds. Just like a
prehistoric savage. He has sivery
| locks, long snow-white beard, and a
scab-covered and horribly enla-
ciated body He dresses in garments
Old. scanty. tattered and torn. II IL
said he has never had a home-that
the whole OF his wpetched three score
and ten years, or thereabouts, have been
| spent In the open air-and that as far
as Is known he has no name Tha
/ story told Of him by the peasantrv is
that De was dumped on a desolate Irish
moor. when a small, pretty child. BY a
loathsome, vagabond mother OF, terri
Die % say gentle birth and education.
ana that alone he has wandered ever
since, hecing from his feliowmen as
though some Wild. umid creature OF
the night and making his home in the
densest woods and on the most lone
some commons and wastes. 1t h little
40 De wondered at that he lost his
senses and language, and is now re-
garded only as a harmless. roaming
lunauc or whom no person, save per-
'A"i'' " wv iAttiu thlluiou I'VE IN rear.
WHEN LAST SEEN.
When last seen the unhappy old wiz
ard. as he II called locally, was in tie
woods near the little village OF Kin
sale, ana what pitiful spectacle he
ple-enteli Fishing IN a small stream,
peacefully meandering through a great
silent wood. with a bent piece OF wine
fastened on 20 the end OF a hazel
SLICK, "A roaming photographer hap
pencd 10 come upon him. But hardly
had there been time 90 take a snap
shot OF him than ha was on his feet.
running, though not without "a linn.
ana with his rags clutched faverieh-
ly about his body Ike the pr0verbiaI
March hare. towards "a lofty tree into
the branches of which he eventually
clunbered with the nimbienoss OF 4
wild forest cat Ana once An his lonv
perch no Words-no offer or money.
food or clothing-would induce him 10
come down.
Lying along "a broad branch snd hid
ing his brown hairy face on HIS arm
aud amongst his long hair for Two
whole hours he remained as stlll and a.
sleut az "a marble statue. lie did NOT
move 30 much a. "a muscle. while not
a single word. groan u- sigh escaped
NE cienched lips Al last. wearylug
zation 90 move into "a more favorable
position Tor securing another photo
graph Of him, the photographer cone
ilnued his way
The daylight was uoe melting away
irto twilight and mo huge wood was
beginning 20 echo again with the OWLS
boot the foEs bark and tho badgers
bnarl And long before me- reached
the high road the photographer could
hear The wretghod man laughing in tho
uoe-top-- laughing "a loud hollow. un-
natural lauEh-and whoopiug in
chorus with tho hooUng owls. II rs
said, though doubtless mo- one knows
Tor certain, that tho mau cannot talk
plainly and that his Nocabularly h
limited 10 but score of words or 30.
lu the more poverty stricken ana
ocsolate districts iu the Emerald Isle
tho man iH familiar to most of tho
peasantry Who Eye him clothes from
time Co time. Tho clothes are drop
ped pn Ono ground and when thn
giveIa have Withdrawn to distances.
Then and only then VIII be cone and