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Show SHUT UP WITH WOLVES. TartUlng KsparWeee of Kaapar of Animals An-imals la tha Zoo. Deaplta the oft-repeated warnings of hit fellow-keepers who deprecated bit Inordinate ambition to tame every wild animal In the Philadelphia xoologlcal gardens, Keeper John Lover cane to grief recently In a cage occupied by all large gray wolrce, and be la likely to lose his loft arm as a result of his inllscretlon. When It became necessary neces-sary to clean the gray wolves' cage th other day. Lover volunteered to do it Would he drive the animals back Into the little room behind tbe cagn and then lock the door? Oh, no why should he? He bad wafhod those wolves for a long time, and waa assured as-sured that, so far aa ho was concerned, they had all tho amiability of Bt Bernard Ber-nard doca. Then, watching bis opportunity, oppor-tunity, and assuring htmnelf that no one was near to restrain hlm.he opened the door and wont In. Just at soon ao tho animals saw Lover turn to close the door tboy pounced upon lilm He turned to defend himself and they leaped for his neck. Three attacked him from the front and three from the roar. With nothing but a heavy mop to defend himself, he fought and beat the animals down with fury born of desperation. Several times he felled them to tho floor with well directed blows, but each time tho brutes returned re-turned to the fray. Lover wot worried wor-ried now and almont breathless He was bleeding from the face, anus and binds. The fangs of the animals cut Mi flesh Ilka a knife. On his arms and even on hit cbeekt ware tprayt of foam from tho animals' Jaws. They wire leaping for his face and throat The nolie attracted a dozen keepers, who ran to Lover's rescue With long forks they drove the wolves back In a corner of tbe cage and helped Lover to get outside. Lover complacently walked into tha German hospital, where hit wounds were dressed. Then ho went back to work with his arm In a sling, and great patches of court platter over hit face, aa though nothing unusual had happened. The Injured keeper labored la-bored under the Impression that the wolves which attacked him wero fond of him. |