Translations:Victor of Aveyron/59/en
From Montepedia
The improvement of the sense of taste was still more remarkable. The articles of food with which this child was fed, for a little time after his arrival in Paris, were shockingly disgusting. He trailed them about the room, and eat them out of his hands that were besmeared with filth. But at the period of which I am now speaking, lie constantly threw away, in a pet, the contents of his plate, if any particle of dirt or dust had fallen upon it; and, after he had broken his walnuts under his feet, he took pains to clean them in the nicest and most delicate manner.
