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Animal Heroes
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Ernest Thompson Seton
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IV
Early
that
winter
Jimmie
was
taken
down
with
a
fever.
The
Wolf
howled
miserably
in
the
yard
when
he
missed
his
little
friend,
and
finally
on
the
boy's
demand
was
admitted
to
the
sick-room,
and
there
this
great
wild
Dog--for
that
is
all
a
Wolf
is--continued
faithfully
watching
by
his
friend's
bedside.
The
fever
had
seemed
slight
at
first,
so
that
every
one
was
shocked
when
there
came
suddenly
a
turn
for
the
worse,
and
three
days
before
Christmas
Jimmie
died.
He
had
no
more
sincere
mourner
than
his
"Wolfie."
The
great
gray
creature
howled
in
miserable
answer
to
the
church-bell
tolling
when
he
followed
the
body
on
Christmas
Eve
to
the
graveyard
at
St.
Boniface.
He
soon
came
back
to
the
premises
behind
the
saloon,
but
when
an
attempt
was
made
to
chain
him
again,
he
leaped
a
board
fence
and
was
finally
lost
sight
of.
Later
that
same
winter
old
Renaud,
the
trapper,
with
his
pretty
half-breed
daughter,
Ninette,
came
to
live
in
a
little
log-cabin
on
the
river
bank.
He
knew
nothing
about
Jimmie
Hogan,
and
he
was
not
a
little
puzzled
to
find
Wolf
tracks
and
signs
along
the
river
on
both
sides
between
St.
Boniface
and
Fort
Garry.
He
listened
with
interest
and
doubt
to
tales
that
the
Hudson
Bay
Company's
men
told
of
a
great
Gray-wolf
that
had
come
to
live
in
the
region
about,
and
even
to
enter
the
town
at
night,
and
that
was
in
particular
attached
to
the
woods
about
St.
Boniface
Church.
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