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the people with pickaxes, and the boy was secured. He 

 struggled hard to rush into every hole or gully they 

 came near. When he saw a grown-up person he became 

 alarmed, but tried to fly at children and bite them. He 

 rejected cooked meat with disgust, but delighted in raw 

 flesh and bones, putting them under his paws like a 

 dog." 



The other case occurred at Chupra, in the Presidency 

 of Bengal. In March, 1843, a Hindoo mother went out 

 to help her husband in the field, and while she was cut- 

 ting rice her little boy was carried off by a wolf. About 

 a year afterward, a wolf, followed by several cubs and a 

 strange, ape-like creature, was seen about ten miles from 

 Chupra. The nondescript, after a lively chase, was caught 

 and recognized (by the mark of a burn on his knee) as 

 the Hindoo boy that had disappeared in the rice-field. 

 He would eat nothing but raw flesh, and could never be 

 taught to speak, but expressed his emotions in an inar- 

 ticulate mutter. His elbows and the pans of his knees 

 had become horny from going on all-fours with the 

 wolves. In the winter of 1850 this boy made several 

 desperate attempts to regain his freedom, and in the fol- 

 lowing spring he escaped for good and disappeared in 

 the jungle-forest of Bhangapore. 



Muhammed Baber, in his memoirs, speaks of a fugitive 

 Afghan chieftain who was fed by a tame mountain-wolf ' ; 

 and there is no doubt that many pets of the larger species 

 have voluntarily supported their owner instead of being 



