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A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II

CHAPTER IV
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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.


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