REMARKABLE EXPERIENCE OF A LOST CHILD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1516, 23 October 1883, Page 2

REMARKABLE EXPERIENCE OF A LOST CHILD.

A Chicago paper pullishes the following despatch from, Pittsburg Aboiit two months ago the four-year-old daughter of James/Wilson, a well to do farmer iq Westmoreland County, of this State, disappeared from her home, Parents and friends searched for her for weeks, but could discover no trace of her, and they finally gave her up for lost, They supposed she had either been stolen by tramps or had fallen over one of the many precipicos in the- neighborhood and been killed, and the body devoured by liogd. Yesterday, as a lad named Greene was walking nloiig a creek "in pursuit of game, he observed something moving about in the bushes a few rods ahead of , him, At short intervals it sent fourth a peculiar cry, '! which bore a peculiar resemblance to the human voice. He approached cautiously, but the object discovered him, and fled through the woods at great speed. Seeing it was a child, and believing it was the long missing daughter of his neighbor Wilson, lie pursued, and, after a long chase, overtook it, but its capture was not an easy task. The child fought like a tiger, and • oiily his superior strength enabled him to overcome it. It was entirely naked, its hair was long and matted, its finger nails had grown to the length of bird's claws, and it was browned by the sun and stained from head to foot with berry juice. It was ■'unable to articulate a word. Ho carrie'd the child home, where, after it, was washed, it was recognised as the missing girl, greatly to the joy of her, parents. During its absence it had learned to eat frogs and crayfish, devouring them in their raw state with avidity in preference to cooked food. (The place where it was found is fully ten miles from the residence of Mr Wilson. How the little thing managed to wander to such a distance, and subsisted for so long a' time on what it could find in the woods and streams, can only be imagined. The country through which it wand&'ed abounds in snakes and wild oats, With good care it is thought the child will soon learn to talk again, and in a short time forget its remarkable experience in the woods.