2 WILD BROTHER 



she-wolf, which nursed them to vigorous health 

 with her own young. 



Greek mythology gives us the touching story of 

 Atalanta, daughter of lasius, who was abandoned 

 and left to die in the wilderness. She, too, was 

 saved by one of the lower animals, for a bear 

 nursed her and brought her up with its cubs. 



Kipling in his "Jungle Book" has immortalized 

 Mowgli, the man's cub, who fled from the wrath of 

 Shere Khan, the tiger, and took shelter in the den 

 of a wolf, and was brought up with her young. 



Many such stories have come down to us out of 

 the past, but has anyone ever heard of the reverse 

 of these stories ? Does history record an instance 

 where a woman, to save the life of a helpless starv- 

 ing animal, has taken it into her family and brought 

 it up with her baby ? I think not. 



Such a story was told to me one evening in mid- 

 winter, by the station agent in a little village in 

 northern Maine, where, with Mrs. Underwood, my 

 comrade on all journeys short or long, I was wait- 

 ing for the midnight train to take us back to 

 Boston. That afternoon we had driven out from 

 my camp at the head of one of the Schoodic lakes, 

 twenty-five miles away. It had been a cold hard 

 pull, over heavy unbroken roads deep with two 

 feet of newly fallen snow. In the comfortable glow 

 of a red-hot stove we sat in a circle, the railroad 



