y) WILD BROTHER 
she-wolf, which nursed them to vigorous health 
with her own young. 
Greek mythology gives us the touching story of 
Atalanta, daughter of Iasius, who was abandoned 
and left to die in the wilderness. She, too, was 
saved by one of the lower animals, for a bear 
nursed her and brought her up with its cubs. 
Kipling in his ‘‘ Jungle Book” has immortalized 
Mowgli, the man’s cub, who fled from the wrath of 
Shere Khan, the tiger, and took shelter in the den 
of a wolf, and was brought up with her young. 
Many such stories have come down to us out of 
the past, but has anyone ever heard of the reverse 
of these stories? Does history record an instance 
where a woman, to save the life of a helpless starv- 
ing animal, has taken it into her family and brought 
it up with her baby? I think not. 
Such a story was told to me one evening in mid- 
winter, by the station agent in a little village in 
northern Maine, where, with Mrs. Underwood, my 
comrade on all journeys short or long, I was wait- 
ing for the midnight train to take us back to 
Boston. That afternoon we had driven out from 
my camp at the head of one of the Schoodic lakes, 
twenty-five miles away. It had been a cold hard 
pull, over heavy unbroken roads deep with two 
feet of newly fallen snow. In the comfortable glow 
of a red-hot stove we sat in a circle, the railroad 
