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 M. d'Epinoy, who ordered the shepherd to lodge her in his house, and promised to take care of her diet, &c. The attention paid her for near two months by this nobleman, who kept her the greatest part of the day in his family, permitting her to fish in his ditch, and search for roots in his gardens, brought a great deal of company to his house. She was observed to eat every thing raw, such as rabbits, which she skinned with her fingers, as expertly as any cook. She climbed trees more easily than the most agile woodman, and when at the top of them she imitated the notes of the different birds of her own country. I myself saw her, in a garden at Chalons, searching in the ground for roots, and, for that purpose, making use only of her thumb and foremost finger, with which she would, in an instant, make holes of a considerable depth, and as skilfully as could have been done, with a hough.

bishop of Chalons, and the governor of the province, have been witnesses to her exercises of this sort. The bishop has since placed her in the hospital general of this town, into which the children of both sexes, belonging to the poorer inhabitants are received, and brought up to the age of 15 or 16 years, when they are put out to trades. It is there that they endeavour at present to tame and instruct her. She  times