The Winnipeg Wolf 
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 sud- 
denly a turn for the worse, and three days be- 
fore 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 at- 
tempt 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 
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