As back as 700 B.C., people have talked about children being reared for by wolves. Romulus and Remus, the legendary twin founders of Rome, were purported to have been cared for by wolves. According to legend, Mars fathered the two boys. As a result, a relative of their mother imprisoned her and ordered that the boys be drowned in the Tiber River. However, a she-wolf saved them from this horrible fate and took them back to her lair to care for them. Legend has it that when she-wolf loses her litter, she seeks a human child to take & its place. This seemingly preposterous idea did not  become credible until the late nineteenth century when a & French doctor actually found a naked ten-year-old boy wandering in the woods. He did not walk in the erect, & could not speak -intelligibly, nor could he relate to people. He only growled and started at them. Finally, the doctor won the boy's confidence and began to work with him. After many long years of devoted and patient :instruction, the doctor was able to get the boy to clothe and feed himself, recognize and utter a number of words, and write letters and form words. :