. Wild animals at home [microform]. Animals; Zoology; Animaux; Zoologie. ThcCtfteCoTote day, and was often seen sitting on a ridge a couple of hundred yards away. One day he was sitting much nearer and grinning in Coyote fashion, when one of the campers in a spirit of mischief said to the dog, " Chink, you see that Coyote out there grinning at you. Go and chase him out of ; Burning to distinguish himself, that pup set off at full speed, and every time he struck the ground he let oflF a war-whoop. Away went theCoyote and It looked like a good race to us, and to the Picket- pm Gro


. Wild animals at home [microform]. Animals; Zoology; Animaux; Zoologie. ThcCtfteCoTote day, and was often seen sitting on a ridge a couple of hundred yards away. One day he was sitting much nearer and grinning in Coyote fashion, when one of the campers in a spirit of mischief said to the dog, " Chink, you see that Coyote out there grinning at you. Go and chase him out of ; Burning to distinguish himself, that pup set off at full speed, and every time he struck the ground he let oflF a war-whoop. Away went theCoyote and It looked like a good race to us, and to the Picket- pm Ground-squirrels that sat up high on their mounds to njokx in the spectacle of these, their enemies, warring against each other. The Coyote has a way of slouching along, his tail dangling and tangling with his legs, and his legs loose-jointed; mixing with his tail. He doesn't seem to work hard but oh! how he does cover the prauiel And very soon it was clear that in spite of his magnificent bounds and whoops of glory, Chink was losing ground. A Httlc later the Coyote obviously had to slack up to keep from running away altogether. It had seemed a good race for a quarter of a mile, but it was nothing to the race which began when the Coyote turned on Chink. Uttering a gurgling growl, a bark, and a couple of screeches, he closed in with aU the combined fury of 9. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946. Toronto : W. Briggs


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