They
only left him on the approach of morning, when movement and stir
again arose in the village. This boy did not survive long. He
never spoke, nor did a single ray of human intelligence ever shed
its refining light over his debased features."
Recently a writer in the Badmington Magazine, in speaking of the
authenticity of wolf-children, says:--
"A jemidar told me that when he was a lad he remembered going,
with others, to see a wolf-child which had been netted. Some time
after this, while staying at an up-country place called
Shaporeooundie, in East Bengal, it was my fortune to meet an
Anglo-Indian gentleman who had been in the Indian civil service
for upward of thirty years, and had traveled about during most of
that time; from him I learned all I wanted to know of
wolf-children, for he not only knew of several cases, but had
actually seen and examined, near Agra, a child which had been
recovered from the wolves. The story of Romulus and Remus, which
all schoolboys and the vast majority of grown people regard as a
myth, appears in a different light when one studies the question
of wolf-children, and ascertains how it comes to pass that boys
are found living on the very best terms with such treacherous and
rapacious animals as wolves, sleeping with them in their dens,
sharing the raw flesh of deer and kids which the she-wolf
provides, and, in fact, leading in all essentials the actual life
of a wolf.
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