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Incident of Romans Repeated by Wild Animal Near St. Paul.
    From Ewing, thirty miles from here, says the St. Paul Pioneer Press, comes a story so strange and startling that it has attracted much attention, and steps have been taken to either prove or disaprove it, for it is true a new fact in natural history has been established and the much-maligned wolf will take a higher place in the estimation of the human race.
    Several weeks ago, according to reports that have reached here, an infant daughter of William Dunphy, a prospector who lived in the hills overlooking Ewing, with his wife, was carried off one afternoon by a wild animal.
    Search was made for the little one, but no trace of it could be found, and the babe was finally given up for dead. Ever since then the father has spent his time in the hills seeking the bears and the wolves, which are numerous in the mountains, and slaughtering them wherever found, while the mother has sat and wept and pined away over the fate of her child.
    While Dunphy was hunting in the mountains the other day he came on a wolf den, which showed signs of being occupied. He waited for a long time, and then, as no wolf came forth, he decided to enter the den and see for himself what was in it.
    “As he entered the place he heard the cry of a child. Advancing he saw a sight that almost turned his hair white. Lying on a bed of grass at the end of the den was a big mother wolf with several pups playing beside her, while close to her side was his lost baby, trying to get dinner from the mother wolf, which seemed to enjoy the tugging.
    The wolf simply growled, but made no attempt to escape or to make an attack when the man approached. She was attached to the child, apparently, and had been nursing it. At least that is the supposition, as the little one was well nourished and was without a scratch.
    Two men who have come from Ewing today have told the same story. Both men hitherto had excellent reputations.
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