The boy understood signs, and his hearing was exceedingly acute; when directed by movements of the hands to assist the cultivators in turning out cattle, he readily comprehended what was asked of him; yet this lad, whose vulpine career was so short, could neither talk nor utter any decidedly articulate sound.
The author of the pamphlet expressed some surprise that there was no case on record in which a grown man had been found in such association.
This curious collection of cases of wolf-children is attributed to Colonel Sleeman, a well-known officer, who is known to have been greatly interested in the subject, and who for a long time resided in the forests of India.

A copy, now a rarity, is in the South Kensington Museum.
An interesting case of a wolf-child was reported many years ago in Chambers' Journal.

In the Etwah district, near the banks of the river Jumna, a boy was captured from the wolves.

After a time this child was restored to his parents, who, however, "found him very difficult to manage, for he was most fractious and troublesome--in fact, just a caged wild beast.

Often during the night for hours together he would give vent to most unearthly yells and moans, destroying the rest and irritating the tempers of his neighbors and generally making night hideous.