WOLF-NURTURED CHILDREN

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 22, 21 October 1919, Page 7

WOLF-NURTURED CHILDREN

Since the time of Romnlns and Remus and probably long before, the stories of wolf-nurtured children has been common. In modern time* whenever the story of such children has cropped up, the question has been: AVlmt, or any, evidence is there that such children, 'if rescued, have been humanised if they survive their new surroundings? A correspondent says in the London "Field" tihat ho saw the wolf-child of Agra about 1832, and it then was grown ill), and was very fond of smoking; liul the writer does not remember whether it could talk, and thinks it could .not. In the "Field" of iS'ovemW 0. IP!W, Mr, ITercules G. Ross related his experience of wolf-nurtured children w','en he was Areislant-CoiDmis'ioner of .Siiltanpore, Qudli, in 1860-61. T>ho police brought in a boy who had been recovered from a wolf den, and could ulter no j finnd but snarls and grunts. He was taken care of, fed on raw meat, for he %;■! would not touch it when cooked, and was i gradually induced to take bread and milk. He lived to grow up, and sent to school, and was eventually taken into tho police force. Presumably, therefore, ho had learnt to speak intelligently.