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.