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Wolf Story.

A pleasant child just able to walk, wondered away from home and into a wolf den. The young wolves had just consumed a larger and commoner prey, and knew when they had enough: so they let the child be among them, and saved it for another day. The little creature stayed for the night, when […]

A Man-Wolf.

       Rev. Dr. Butler, the Methodist missionary who established the mission of that church in India in 1856, recently returned to this country. He makes the following statement of a remarkable case:      In 1859 a British soldier, while bearing a despatch from one magistrate to another in the kingdom of Onde, passed an […]

Are Children Ever Nursed by Wolves?

       The Rev. Dr. Ellinwood, Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, in a letter from Cawnpore, India, to the New York Evangelist, has the following paragraphs:      Our interest was greatly excited at the Secundra Orphanage by one inmate, known as the”Wolf Boy.” Within ten years two boys, said to have been […]

Two East-Indian Wonders.

  The Tomb of King Akbar, and the “Wolf Boy.” Arra [India] Correspondence Frey Times.      Here we saw among the inmates [Arra, India] a person known as “the wolf boy.” He is now about 20 years old. “The wolf boy” was taken away from a wolf-captured in a wolf’s den at Bulandshabar, about 80 […]

Nurtured By She-Wolf.

  Incident of Romans Repeated by Wild Animal Near St. Paul.      From Ewing, thirty miles from here, says the St. Paul Pioneer Press, comes a story so strange and startling that it has attracted much attention, and steps have been taken to either prove or disaprove it, for it is true a new fact […]

A Wolf Story.

  ‘Court of Lucknow, Hindostan, India.      “I must now tell you about a poor boy who was found in a wolf’s den, with a wolf and three whelps. When dug into by some of my troopers, they all fled together, and the boy ran so fast on all fours that he outstripped the whelps, […]

A “Wolf Boy.”

       An interesting child, remarks the Pall Mall Gazette, has lately made its appearance at Lucknow. The Pioneer reports the arrival there of “a novelty in the shape of a wolf boy.” This young gentleman, who is now undergoing a process of taming in the lunatic asylum, was, it is said, carried off by […]

The Boy-Wolf-A Pair of Stories from Dr. Bull’s Book on India.

  London Telegraph.      From his eminently interesting work, entitled “Jungle Life in India,” Mr Ball has added good reasons for believing that the old classical story of the rearing of Romulus and Remus by a she-wolf may be founded in fact. The author cites the case of two lads in an orphanage in Sekundra, […]