One night while the boy was lying under the tree, near Janoo, Janoo saw two wolves come up stealthily, and smell at the boy.  They then touched him, and he got up; and, instead of being frightened, the boy put his hands upon their heads, and they began to play with him.  They capered around him, and he threw straw and leaves at them.  Janoo tried to drive them off but he could not, and became much alarmed; and he called out to the sentry over the guns, Meer Akbur Allee, 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 wolves came, but at no time did more than four come.  They came four or five times, and Janoo had no longer any fear of them; and he thinks that the first two that came must have been the two cubs with which the boy was first found, and that they were prevented from seizing him by recognising the smell.  They licked his face with their tongues as he put his hands on their heads.

Soon after his master, Sanaollah, returned to Lucknow, and threatened Janoo to turn him out of his service unless he let go the boy.  He persisted in taking the boy with him, and his master relented.  He had a string tied to his arm, and led him along by it, and put a bundle of clothes on his head.  As they passed a jungle the boy would throw down the bundle and try to run into the jungle, but on being beaten, he would put up his hands in supplication, take up the bundle and go on; but he seemed soon to forget the beating, and did the same thing at almost every jungle they came through.  By degrees he became quite docile.  Janoo was one day, about three months after their return to Lucknow, sent away by his master for a day or two on some business, and before his return the boy had ran off, and he could never find him again.  About two months after the boy had gone, a woman, of the weaver caste, came with a letter from a relation of the Rajah, Hurdut Sing, to Sanaollah, stating that she resided in the village of Chureyrakotra, on his estate, and had had her son, then about four years of age, taken from her, about five or six years before, by a wolf; and, from the description which she gave of him, he, the Rajah’s relation, thought he must be the boy whom his servant, Janoo, took away with him.  She said that her boy had two marks upon him, one on the chest of a boil, and one of something else on the forehead; and as these marks corresponded precisely with those found upon the boy, neither she nor they had any doubt that he was her lost son.  She remained for four months with the merchant Sanaollah, and Janoo,