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now so far off. He could easily have run across the chord of 

 the arc and headed the Antelope, but he knew too well what 

 she would do to give himself that trouble. After a little it was 

 evident that the Antelope would come back pretty near to 

 the hill, but on the other side of it from where she had passed 

 before, and the Wolf which I had first seen chasing her trotted 

 out 200 or 300 yards on to the prairie and sat down. The 

 Antelope was now coming back almost directly towards him, 

 and I could see that there were two Wolves behind her, one 

 close to her heels and the other a good way further back. 

 The first Wolf now seemed quite excited. He no longer sat 

 up but crouched close to the ground, every few moments 

 raising his head very slowly to take a look at the doe, and 

 then lowering it again so that he would be out of sight. 

 Sometimes he crawled on his belly a few feet further from 

 me, evidently trying to put himself directly in the path of the 

 Antelope and this he seemed to have succeeded in doing. As 

 she drew near him I could see that she was staggering, she 

 was so tired, and the Wolf behind could at any moment have 

 knocked her down if he had wanted to, but he seemed to be 

 waiting for something. The Wolf that was following him was 

 now running faster and catching up. 



"When the Antelope reached the place where the first 

 Wolf was lying hidden, he sprang up and in a jump or two 

 caught her neck and threw her down. At the same moment 

 the two Wolves from behind came up, and for a moment there 

 was a scuffie in which yellow and white and gray and waving 

 tails were all mixed up, and then the three Wolves were seen 

 standing there tearing away at their breakfast." 



In the October of 1893, while living in New Mexico near 

 Clayton, I had an opportunity of watching a joint hunt of 

 Prairie-dogs by 2 Coyotes, no doubt a pair. Early in the 

 morning I was on a rugged hill overlooking a plain on which 

 was a Prairie-dog town. One Coyote was in an arroyo or 

 dry watercourse hidden from view. The other walked openly 

 and calmly toward a Prairie-dog that was barking vigorously 



