Show A MYTH ED i 1 true and lo in lasdin biml in professor J 11 in an fn a letter dated Alla habad babad cindia india 23 ista and published in ia the amherst collego student tells the following allowing stoy story not hot fr far atom akra agra in northern india I 1 4 is a luit sion bration of the church 9 missionary 1 L iba ry society connected with which IS is tin orphanage with several hundred children bowl under the abo efficient ciro caro of the llcy hey 1 G erhardt the region around ii ia infested with wolves by which every year numbers of ch children aro are carried oft off ond and devoured bat but in ia two instances at least in instead tead of being killed and eaten the children have been kept alive and nourished with if not by these beasts whether the story of romulda uS and R bemus temus be a myth or not this ibis is an reality for the children themselves have been captured from among the wolves and bro brought aught to the orphanage above mentioned they were both boys and apparently of some seven or eight years of age when taken they were found at different times the list one in ia march of the present year somo some banters smoking cuzolin cui olin wolves out of a cave were startled when the wolves appeared bythe by the appearance among them thern jofs of a creature looking strangely hu human rijan but bat run running u rapidly I 1 ly on all fours like the wol wolves ves though hotbo 0 tho rapidly aa a they bifid was caught with difficulty and there wits was no mistaking that he was a child of human parentage but with the habits and actions and nl appetites of a 1 wild beast tho the hunters banters brought liim him to tho the orphanage where lie was received and cared for though hii physical form larm and features were to show that he ha WIS was it a lindoo child there were no other indications about bini of anything lhing human la in nil all other respects ia LI the language erhardt a per fact lect animal lie had no but a whine lie would wear no clothes tearing from him everything of the kind whenever put on ile iio would cat nothing lut but raw flesh and when lie he drink drank lie ho lapped the water with his bis tongue lett left to be would hide in some darl dark spot durin during the day which he would come out of f at and prowl about the enclosure puking pitkin up tip honest bones if any were to be round found aril and ravenously them it at first teemed impossible ible tor for lim him to walk erect but after much difficulty he be wa vas taught to do so 20 and alto aho to use a fork and ana a spoon and to drink like a human being in though hough T treated with the utmost ca we g and gaj patience and kindness by th the C ar i hand and hearts which received e cd bi him h he e pined away and died after he had bad keen been in 10 the orphanage a littleover litt little leover over four months la in all this time he could not be made to utter a word i ho he was never to smile or bhoj any signs or of joy Y or shame or gratitude ciul mr ehardt fir hardt who ave me this account assured me that ave his is face looked more intelligent than the average hindmo children and that his color and A n I 1 features indicated that his parentage must have been of a family of high caste the other loy boy I 1 saw myself a few dayi since at the orphanage where he was brought about six fix years cars ego ago having havin in loca licea when captured much as was th llie first mentioned boy and having shown precisely the same habits ai ai belonged to him ile U has not yet spoken a word d but hai the whine which was wa his only utterance for sounds sound expressive of pleasure and j ind apparently parent ly also ako of gratitude lift ile no longer prefers raw flesh or for food 00 but cats broad bread and fruit with th ravenous avidity ile ho walks erect but with a strangely strange hlis awkward pit gait throwing out his biondi with every bier JILS his lands hands aro are perfectly formed but he uses them auk awkwardly A piece of bread tossed tu tad him from a little distance which he be was eager to get gel ho be could not catch eatch but let it fall cluni clumsily to the ground ue lie wears wean clothes to which he was waa at airet us as averse ayame as the other boy ilia his forehead is ia lows low but bis face would hardly be called dull and certainly not idiotic his fits eyes have a e wild and rest acis C tut but not an inquiring look ilia his laws jaws are rc not protruding and his bleth are arc well welli I thoroughly human on bid left check aro are scars scara bearing plainly the marks of tooth teeth where he must hac me been fearfully bitten lie he his haa icen taught I 1 ti do tome kinds of work but not faithfully ilo beetus to have lost all dairo det iro to escape ile he mil mingles igles freely with the lie other children fluom ito ho has lis his favorites i when hen the boy A arat t mentioned was brought to the orphanage this ono was madu baad to understand that he must teach the other how bow to eat cat and drink and walk and much of the improvement of the lounger one ona in these theao respects seem lia ed due ile to ortho of tho older one I 1 |