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the forest of Songy, near Chalons , in Cham­ pagne . This girl, then but ten years old,entered one evening into the village ofSongy, her feet were naked, her bodyclothed with skins, her hair long, and herface and hands black as a negroe’s ; she wasarmed with a short stick; the peasantswere alarmed, and loosed a large wolfhound at her ; she stretched him at her feetwith a single blow, and fled into the woods.M. D’Epinay, lord of a neighbouring cha-teau, gave orders to have her taken. Manystratagems were vainly employed; at last awoman with an infant in her arms, went tothe tree in which she usually slept, andcarried some food, inviting her to comedown. The little savage at last descended,and followed the woman: while some per-sons in ambuscade seized, and conveyedher to the chateau. She was washed, andat last became perfectly white.

She had a companion, another savage,older than herself, from whom she sepa-rated before her arrival at Songy: they wereswimming across a river together, when a