100 Years Ago

摘要

Many instances are on record of so-called "wolf-children," said to have been found in the jungles of India. A strange story is now reported from Naini Tal, the summer capital of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, of a female child about nine years old found in this neighbourhood, and unable to eat anything except grass and chapatis or native griddle cakes. She has a great mat of head hair and a thick growth on the sides of her face and spine. She bears marks of vaccination and is clearly a child who had, years ago, been abandoned or strayed into the jungle.