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after going a little distance they returned, and began to play 

 again with the boy. At last he succeeded in driving them off 

 altogether. , The night after three Wolves came, and the boy and 

 they played together. A few nights after four Wolves came, but 

 at no time did more than four come ; they came four or five 

 times, and Janoo had no longer any fear of them ; and he thinks 

 that the first two that came must have been the two cubs with 

 which the boy was first found, and that they were prevented from 

 seizing him by recognising the smell ; they licked his face with 

 their tongues as he put his hands on their heads. 



Soon after, his master, Sanaollah, returned to Lucknow, and 

 threatened Janoo to turn him out of his service, unless he let go 

 the boy ; he persisted in taking the boy with him, and his master 

 relented. He had a string tied to his arm, and led him along by 

 it, and put a bundle of clothes on his head. As they passed a 

 jungle, the boy would throw down the bundle, and try to run 

 into the jungle ; but on being beaten, he would put up his hands 

 in supplication, take up the bundle, and go on ; but he soon 

 seemed to forget the beating, and did the same thing at almost 

 every jungle they came through. By degrees he became quite 

 docile. Janoo was one day, about three months after their 

 return to Lucknow, sent away by his master for a day or two on 

 some business, and before his return the boy had gone off, and 

 he could never find him again. About two months after the boy 

 had gone, a woman, of the weaver cast, came with a letter from 

 a relation of the Rajah, Hurdut Sing, to Sanaollah, stating that 

 she resided in the village of Chureyrokotra, on his estate, and 

 had had the son, then about four years of age, taken from her, 

 about five or six years before, by a Wolf ; and from the descrip- 

 tion which she gave of him, he, the Rajah's relation, thought he 

 must be the boy whom his servant Janoo took away with him. 

 She said that her boy had two marks upon him, one on the 

 chest of a boil, and one of something else on the forehead ; 

 and as these marks corresponded precisely with those found 

 upon the boy, neither she nor they had any doubt that he was her 

 long lost son. She remained for four months with the merchant 

 Sanaollah, and Janoo, his khidmutgar, at Lucknow ; but the boy 

 could not be found, and she returned home, praying that infor- 

 mation might be sent to her should he be discovered. Sanaollah, 

 Janoo, and Ramzan Khan, are still at Lucknow, and, before me, 



