He never spoke, nor did a single ray of human intelligence ever shed its refining light over his debased features." Recently a writer in the Badmington Magazine, in speaking of the authenticity of wolf-children, says:-- "A jemidar told me that when he was a lad he remembered going, with others, to see a wolf-child which had been netted.

Some time after this, while staying at an up-country place called Shaporeooundie, in East Bengal, it was my fortune to meet an Anglo-Indian gentleman who had been in the Indian civil service for upward of thirty years, and had traveled about during most of that time; from him I learned all I wanted to know of wolf-children, for he not only knew of several cases, but had actually seen and examined, near Agra, a child which had been recovered from the wolves.

The story of Romulus and Remus, which all schoolboys and the vast majority of grown people regard as a myth, appears in a different light when one studies the question of wolf-children, and ascertains how it comes to pass that boys are found living on the very best terms with such treacherous and rapacious animals as wolves, sleeping with them in their dens, sharing the raw flesh of deer and kids which the she-wolf provides, and, in fact, leading in all essentials the actual life of a wolf.
"A young she-wolf has a litter of cubs, and after a time her instinct tells her that they will require fresh food.

She steals out at night in quest of prey.

Soon she espies a weak place in the fence (generally constructed of thatching grass and bamboos) which encloses the compound, or 'unguah,' of a poor villager.