. Lives of the hunted, containing a true account of the doings of five quadrupeds & three birds, and in elucidation of the same, over 200 drawings . ong their line of travel, to leave arecord of their visit. These stations may be astone, a tree, a post, or an old Buffalo-skull, andthe Coyote calling there can learn, by the odorand track of the last comer, just who the callerwas, whence he came, and whither he whole country is marked out by these in-telligence depots. Now it often happens thata Coyote that has not much else to do will carrya dry bone or some other useless object in its
. Lives of the hunted, containing a true account of the doings of five quadrupeds & three birds, and in elucidation of the same, over 200 drawings . ong their line of travel, to leave arecord of their visit. These stations may be astone, a tree, a post, or an old Buffalo-skull, andthe Coyote calling there can learn, by the odorand track of the last comer, just who the callerwas, whence he came, and whither he whole country is marked out by these in-telligence depots. Now it often happens thata Coyote that has not much else to do will carrya dry bone or some other useless object in itsmouth, but sighting the signal-post, will go to-ward it to get the news, lay down the bone,and afterward forget to take it along, so thatthe signal-posts in time become further markedwith a curious collection of odds and ends. This singular habit was the cause of a dis-aster to the Chimney-pot Wolf-hounds, and acorresponding advantage to the Coyotes in thewar. Jake had laid a line of poison baits onthe western bluffs. Tito knew what they were,and spurned them as usual; but finding morelater, she gathered up three or four and crossed 3°9 Tito. the Little Missouri toward the she circled at a safe distance; but whensomething made the pack of Dogs break outinto clamor, Tito dropped the baits, and nextday, when the Dogs were taken out for exercise,they found and devoured these scraps of meat,so that in ten minutes there were four hundreddollars worth of Greyhounds lying dead. Thisled to an edict against poisoning in that dis-trict, and thus was a great boon to the quickly learned that not only each kindof game must be hunted in a special way, butdifferent ones of each kind may require quitedifferent treatment. The Prairie-dog with the^outlying den was really an easy prey, but thetown was quite compact now that he was the centre of it was a fine, big, fat Prairie-dog, a perfect alderman, that she had madeseveral vain attempts to capture. On on
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