CURIOUS CREATURES. 



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like Caspar Hauser, and Peter the Wild Boy, and fiction 

 supplies other instances, such as Romulus and Remus, 

 Orson, &c. Some of them were credited with being 

 hairy as are the accompanying wild man and woman, as 

 they are portrayed in John Sluper's book, where they 

 are thus described : 



11 L'HOMME SAUVAGE. 



Combien que Dieu le createur seul sage, 

 A fait user les hommes de raison : 

 Icy voyez un vray homme sauvage, 

 Son corps vela est en toute saison." 



