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elbows, of his having gone very long on all-fours ; and when 

 asked to run on all-fours, he used to do so, and went so fast that 

 no one could overtake him ; how long he had been with the 

 trooper, or how long it took him to learn to walk on his legs, he 

 knows not. He could not talk or utter any very articulate 

 sounds. He understood signs, and heard exceedingly well, and 

 would assist the cultivators in turning trespassing cattle out of 

 the fields when told by signs to do so. Boodhoo, a Brahmin 

 cultivator of the village, took care of him, and he remained with 

 him for three months, when he was claimed, and taken off by his 

 father, a shepherd, who said that the boy was six years old when 

 the Wolf took him off at night — some four years before. He did 

 not like to leave Boodhoo. The Brahmin and the father were 

 obliged to drag him awaj\ What became of him afterwards he 

 never heard. The lad had no hair upon his body, nor had he 

 any dislike to wear clothes while he saw him. This statement 

 was confirmed by the people of the village. 



About seven years ago, a trooper belonging to the king, and 

 in attendance upon Rajah Hurdut Sing, of Bondee, alias Bum- 

 notee, on the left bank of the Ghagra river, in the Bahraetch dis- 

 trict, was passing near a small stream which flows into that 

 river, when he saw two Wolf cubs and a boy drinking in the 

 stream. He had a man with him on foot, and they managed to 

 seize the boy, who appeared to be ten years of age. He took 

 him up on the pummel of his saddle, but he was so wild and 

 fierce that he tore the trooper's clothes, and bit him severely in 

 several places, though he had tied his hands together. He 

 brought him to Bondee, where the Rajah had him tied up in his 

 artillery gun-shed, and gave him raw flesh to eat; but he several 

 times cut his ropes and ran off, and after three months the 

 Rajah got tired of him and let him go. He was then taken by a 

 Cashmeeree mimic or comedian (bhand), who fed and took care 

 of him for six months ; but at the end of that time he also got 

 tired of him — for his habits were filthy — and let him go, to 

 wander about the Bondee Bazaar. He one day ran off with 

 a joint of meat from a butcher's shop, and soon after upset some 

 things in the shop of a bunneea, who let fly an arrow at him. 

 The arrow penetrated the boy's thigh. At this time, Sanaollah, a 

 Cashmeer merchant of Lucknow, was at Bondee, selling some 

 shawl goods to the Rajah, on the occasion of his brother's mar- 



