The author of the pamphlet expressed some surprise that there was
no case on record in which a grown man had been found in such
association. This curious collection of cases of wolf-children is
attributed to Colonel Sleeman, a well-known officer, who is known
to have been greatly interested in the subject, and who for a
long time resided in the forests of India. A copy, now a rarity,
is in the South Kensington Museum.
An interesting case of a wolf-child was reported many years ago
in Chambers' Journal. In the Etwah district, near the banks of
the river Jumna, a boy was captured from the wolves. After a time
this child was restored to his parents, who, however, "found him
very difficult to manage, for he was most fractious and
troublesome--in fact, just a caged wild beast. Often during the
night for hours together he would give vent to most unearthly
yells and moans, destroying the rest and irritating the tempers
of his neighbors and generally making night hideous. On one
occasion his people chained him by the waist to a tree on the
outskirts of the village. Then a rather curious incident
occurred. It was a bright moonlight night, and two wolf cubs
(undoubtedly those in whose companionship he had been captured),
attracted by his cries while on the prowl, came to him, and were
distinctly seen to gambol around him with as much familiarity and
affection as if they considered him quite one of themselves.
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