She went off forthwith to the Koelee bazaar, and, in addition to the two marks above described, discovered a third mark on his thigh, with which her child was born.  She took him home to her village, where he was recognised by all her neighbours.  She kept him for two months, and all the sporting landholders in the neighbourhood sent her game for him to feed upon.  He continued to dip his face in the water to drink, but he sucked in the water, and did not lap it up like a dog or wolf.  His body continued to smell offensively.  When the mother went to her work, the boy always ran into the jungle, and she could never get him to speak.  He followed his mother for what he could get to eat, but showed no particular affection for her; and she could never bring herself to feel much for him; and after two months, finding him of no use to her, and despairing of even making anything of him, she left him to the common charity of the village.  He soon after learnt to eat bread when it was given him, and ate whatever else he could get during the day, but always went off to the jungle at night.  He used to mutter something, but could never be got to articulate any word distinctly.  The front of his knees and elbows had become hardened from going on all fours with the wolves.  If any clothes are put on him, he takes them off, and commonly tears them to pieces in doing so.  He still prefers raw flesh to cooked, and feeds on carrion whenever he can get it.  The boys of the village are in the habit of amusing themselves by catching frogs and throwing them to him; and he catches and eats them.  When a bullock dies, and the skin is removed, he goes and eats it like a village dog.  The boy is still in the village, and this is the description given of him by the mother herself, who still lives at Chupra.  She has never experienced any return of affection for him, nor has he shown any such feeling for her.  Her story is confirmed by all her neighbours, and by the head landholders, cultivators, and shopkeepers of the village.*

[* In November, 1850, Captain Nicholetts, on leaving the cantonments of Sultanpoor, where he commanded, ordered this boy to be sent in to me with his mother, but he got alarmed on the way and ran to a jungle.  He will no doubt find his way back soon if he lives.]

The Rajah of Hasunpoor Bundooa mentions, as a fact within his own knowledge, besides the others, for the truth of which he vouches, that, in the year 1843, a lad came to the town of Hasunpoor, who had evidently been brought up by wolves.  He seemed to be twelve years of age when he saw him—­was very dark, and ate flesh, whether cooked or uncooked.  He had short hair all over his body when he first came, but having, for a time, as the Rajah states, eaten salt with his food, like other human beings, the hair by degrees disappeared.  He could walk, like other men, on his legs, but could never be taught to speak.  He would utter sounds like wild animals, and could be made to understand signs very well.  He used to sit at a bunneea’s shop in the bazaar, but was at last recognised by his parents, and taken off.  What became of him afterwards he knows not.  The Rajah’s statement regarding this lad is confirmed by all the people of the town, but none of them know what afterwards became of him.