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Title: Zigzag journeys in northwest lands. The Rhine to the Arctic
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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th the woods of Hanover,near Hamburg, was entitled PETER THE WILD BOY. In the year 1725, a few years after the capture of Marie le Blanc, a cele-brated wild girl in France, there was seen in the woods, some twenty-five milesfrom Hanover, an object in form like a boy, yet running on his hands and feet,and eating grass and moss, like a beast. The remarkable creature was captured, and was taken to Hanover by the HAMBURG. 217 superintendent of the House of Correction at Zell. It proved to be a boy evi-dently about thirteen years of age, yet possessing the habits and appetites of amere animal. He was presented to King George I., at a state dinner at Hano-ver, and, the curiosity of the king being greatly excited, he became his patron. In about a year after his capture he was taken to England, and exhibited tothe court. While in that country he received the name of Peter the Wild Boy,by which ever after he was known. Marie le Blanc, after proper training, became a lively, brilliant girl, and
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PETER THE WILD BOY. related to her friends and patrons the history of her early life ; but Peter theWild Boy seems to have been mentally deficient. Dr. Arbuthnot, at whose house he resided for a time in his youth, spared nopains to teach him to talk ; but his efforts met with but little success. Peter seemed to comprehend the language and. signs of beasts and birds farbetter than those of human beings, and to have more sympathy with the brute 2l8 ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN NORTHERN LANDS. creation than with mankind. He, however, at last was taught to articulate thename of his royal patron, his own name, and some other words. It was a long time before he became accustomed to the habits of civilization.He had evidently been used to sleeping on the boughs of trees, as a securityfrom wild beasts, and when put to bed would tear the clothes, and hopping uptake his naps in the corner of the room. He regarded clothing with aversion, and when fully dressed was as uneasyas a culprit in prison. He was,

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