He would eat anything thrown to him, but
preferred meat, which he devoured with canine voracity. He drank
a pitcher of buttermilk at one gulp, and could not be induced to
wear clothing even in the coldest weather. He showed the greatest
fondness for bones, and gnawed them contentedly, after the manner
of his adopted parents. This child had coarse features, a
repulsive countenance, was filthy in his habits, and could not
articulate a word.
In another case the child was kidnapped at three and recovered at
nine. He muttered, but could not articulate. As in the other
case, he could not be enticed to wear clothes. From constantly
being on all-fours the front of this child's knees and his elbows
had become hardened. In the third case the father identified a
son who had been carried away at the age of six, and was found
four years afterward. The intellectual deterioration was not so
marked. The boy understood signs, and his hearing was exceedingly
acute; when directed by movements of the hands to assist the
cultivators in turning out cattle, he readily comprehended what
was asked of him; yet this lad, whose vulpine career was so
short, could neither talk nor utter any decidedly articulate
sound.
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