A CURIOUS STORY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 281, 24 August 1880, Page 2

A CURIOUS STORY.

In his eminently interesting work entitled "Jungie Life in India," MiBall has adduced good reasons for bWuving that the old classical story of the reding of Romulus and Remus by the she-wolf may be founded on fact. This author cites the cause of two lads i-t an orphanage at S«kandra, near Agra, who had been discovered among wo!y, s, und in many ways shared the habits of these animals. One of his stories is sapported by a letter from Profe>sor Maux Muller. It says :—"A trooper, sent by the native Governor of Chandaur to demand payment of some revenue, was passing along the banks of the river about noon, when he saw a large leniale wolf leave her den, followed by three whelps and a little bo/. The boy went on all-fours and when he tried to catch nim he ran as fast as the whelps and kept up with the old one. They all entered the den, and were dug out by the people with pickaxes, and the boy was secured. He struggled hard to rush

into every hole or den they came near. He became alarmed when he saw a grown up person, but tried to fly at children and bite them. He rejected cooked meat with disgust, but delighted in raw flesh and bo les, putting them under his paws like a dog. They tried to make him speak, but could get nothinc fr .in him out an angry growl or suarl." Another instance is quoted at as having occurred at Chupra. A Hindoo father and mother went out to cut theii crop in March, 1843. The woman had with her a little boy, who lately had been severely burot on the left knee. While the parents were at work tli3 child was carried off by a wolf. Some years afterwards a wolf with three cubs was seen about ten miles from Chupra, followed by a boy. The boy after much insistence wat caught, and recognised by the m irk of the burn on the left knee. He could eat nothing but raw flesh, and c< uld never le brought to speak: He used to mutter and snarl, but never articulated distinctly. The pans of his knees and the points of his elbows had becorru horney from going on all—fours with the wolves. In November, 1850, this boy escaped again and disappeared into the jungle. Thus the "she wolf's litter " of Macaulay's " Lays ot ancient Rome" may have been, after all, no myth.— Daily Telegraph.