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LITTLE FOLKS 
STOR Y OF A WILD BABY. 
This is an interesting looking fellow creature — isn't it, now? 
Shall I introduce it ? 
My dear young friends, this is Orang-Utan, or otherwise, Simla 
Satyrics, familiarly called Mias, and it is said — by some scientific 
gentlemen — to be the most like human beings of any of the 
animal creation. 
The original of the picture was taken in Borneo, by an English 
naturalist, and was three feet high, and was six and a half feet 
from one hand to the other. Its skin and bones, at present, occupy 
a place of honor in a British Museum. 
So much for its biography. I want to tell you the story of a 
comical Mias baby, which Mr. Wallace saved alive when he sacri- 
ficed its mamma in the interests of science. The infant was about 
a foot long, without a tooth, but with lungs of wonderful power, 
which it made use of to cry — like its cousins of the human race. 
