Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 50
rest, rather than fields and cot-tages and houses. It is a wild beast, but with thebrain and soul of a human being. The wolf-childof India has all the capacities and possibilities ofany ordinary boy or girl. No doubt, if he wereleft with his step-mother, the wolf, his brain wouldmake.him more… … Didthink WOLF-REARED the children who read St. Nicholas in comfortable homes everthat there are wolf-reared children in such a city as New York? —boys and girls who were born to hunger, and cruel treatment, and who live in miserable dens andholes ; who are as ignorant of love and hope, and of the…
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