Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

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 the old one quit the nest again, and the young ones probably sleeping, it crawled gradually away, as unintentional of escape as it had been unconscious of danger, and at length reached the fence of a remote field, where it was picked up by a laborer, and brought to the house of the narrator. But the innocent child had suffered terribly, and bore upon its tender body such marks of the wolf’s den as would so long as it lived, sufficiently attest an otherwise almost incredible fact. The young wolves had forborne to devour their prey; but they had tasted it! The skin of the forehead was licked raw, all the fingers were more or less injured; but two of them were suckled and mumbled completely off.-Frazer’s Magazine.