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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesagents Allee Khan ammonia Amur Sing armed atrocities attacked Bahader Bahraetch Bajah Beharee Bhinga Bondee brahmin brother Bukhtawar Sing Buksh bullocks Bulrampoor camp Captain Bird Captain Lockett carbonic acid charge Colonel Patton commanding corps Court cultivators district Dowlah Durbar Dursun Sing Eesa Meean eldest father four Fuzl Allee Fyzabad gang Ghagra Gholam Gonda Gonda district guns Hakeem Mehndee havildar held hundred Hyder killed king king's Kurum Hoseyn lakhs of rupees landholders lands Lucknow Mahommed Majesty mango Maun Sing ment miles minister months murder Nawabgunge Nazim never Nunda officers Oude government paid Pandee Paska persons pledge plundered possession Prethee Put prisoners proprietors purgunnah Rae Bareilly Rajah Rajpoot Ravenscroft Regiment Resident revenue river road ruffians Rughbur Sing Ruza Saee seized sent Sing's sipahees soil soon sovereign suffer Sultanpoor Syud taken Tallookdars tenants thousand rupees told took torture trees troops village Popular passagesPage 186 - September 1850, told me that the boy died in the latter end of August, and that he was never known to laugh or smile. He understood little of what was said to him, and seemed to take no notice of what was going on around him. He formed no attachment for any one, nor did he seem to care for any one. Page 185 - Hasunpoor, who was at Chandour, and saw the boy when the trooper first brought him to that village. This account is taken from the Rajah's own report of what had taken place. Page 185 - He will drink a whole pitcher of butter-milk when put before him, without seeming to draw breath. He can never be induced to keep on any kind of clothing, even in the coldest weather. A quilt stuffed with cotton was given to him when it became very cold this season, but he tore it to pieces, and ate a portion of it, cotton and all, with his bread every day. Page 188 - The poor cultivator's widow, on hearing this, asked him to describe the boy more minutely, when she found that the boy had the mark of a scald on the left knee, and three marks of the teeth of an animal on each side of his loins. The widow told him that her boy when taken off had... Page 195 - He had great difficulty in making him keep them on, with threats and occasional beatings. He would disencumber himself of them whenever left alone, but put them on again in alarm when discovered ; and to the last often injured or destroyed them by rubbing them against trees or posts, like a beast, when any part of his body itched. This habit he could never break him of. Rajah Hurdut Sewae, who is now in Lucknow on business, tells... Page 193 - Come away and leave him, or they will eat you also ;" but when he saw them begin to play together, his fears subsided and he kept quiet. Gaining confidence by degrees, he drove them away ; but, after going a little distance, they returned, and began to play again with the boy. At last he succeeded in driving them off altogether. The night after three wolves came, and the boy and they played together. A few nights after four wolves came, but at no time did more than four come. They came four or five... Page 183 - ... dens. In every part of India a great number of children are every day murdered for the sake of their ornaments, and the fearful examples that come daily to the knowledge of parents, and the injunctions of the civil authorities, are unavailing against this desire to see their young children decked out in gold and silver ornaments. There is now at Sultanpoor a boy who was found alive in a wolf's den, near Chandour, about ten miles from Sultanpoor, about two years and a half ago. Page 287 - Now the tallookdars keep the country in a perpetual state of disturbance, and render life, property, and industry everywhere insecure. Whenever they quarrel with each other, or with the local authorities of the Government, from whatever cause, they take to indiscriminate plunder and murder over all lands not held by men of the same class ; no road, town, village, or hamlet is secure from their merciless attacks... Page 191 - ... assist the cultivators in turning trespassing cattle out of their fields, when told by signs to do so. Boodhoo, a Brahmin cultivator of the village^ took care of him, and he remained with him for three months, when he was claimed and taken off by his father, a shepherd, who said that the boy was six years old when the wolf took him off at night some four years before ; he did not like to leave Boodhoo, the Brahmin, and the father was obliged to drag him away. What became of him afterwards he... Page 193 - Alice , and told him that the wolves were going to eat the boy. He replied, ' Come away and leave him, or they will eat you also ;' but when he saw them begin to play together, his fears subsided and he kept quiet. Gaining confidence by degrees, he drove them away; but after going a little distance they returned, and began to play again with the boy. At last he succeeded in driving them off altogether. The night after, three wolves came, and the boy and they played together. A few nights after, four... Bibliographic information
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