PETS. 



195 



motives than hunger and fear seems proved by many 

 curious and often very circumstantial accounts of ancient 

 and modern naturalists. Saxo Grammaticus speaks of a 

 bear that kidnapped a child and kept it a long time in 

 his den, and Burbequius, in his account of the Turkish 

 embassy, mentions a lynx that had taken such a fancy 

 to one of his men that his mere presence produced " a 

 sort of intoxication" and his absence despair and finally 

 the death of the animal. (" Legat. Turk.," chap, iii.) 

 Pliny, the Roman Humboldt, mentions a tradition of a 

 cow that followed a Pythagorean philosopher in all his 

 travels ; but where did he come across that strange story 

 of the love-lorn dolphin that had been the playmate of a 

 child, and, when the child died, came ashore in search of 

 him and thus perished? 



The tale of the Roman she-wolf, however, may be 

 something more than a myth. In Dr. Ball's late work 

 on Eastern Hindostan ("Jungle Life in India") there is 

 the following curious account of two children in the 

 orphanage of Sekandra, near Agra, who had been dis- 

 covered among wolves. " A trooper sent by a native 

 governor of Chandaur to demand payment of some rev- 

 enue was passing along the bank of the river about 

 noon, when he saw a large female wolf leave her den, 

 followed by three whelps and a little boy. The boy 

 went on all-fours, and, when the trooper tried to catch 

 him, he ran as fast as the whelps and kept up with the 

 old one. They all entered the den, but were dug out by 



