cactus and then, as if want- 
\ ee, _ ing to look back along its 
eerer on dae trail, sat upright and raised 
- His me a se its big ears. Just then a 
prairie wolf, known as a coyote, trotted into 
view. It sniffed here and there and moved in 
first one direction and then another, but all the 
time it was watching the jack-rabbit out of one 
corner of its eye. 
The young rabbit was not as wise as an old 
one would have been, or it would have known 
the coyote was only fooling him and that with 
all his trotting back and forth he was coming 
nearer all the time. Then, too, the rabbit may 
have thought he could run away and escape 
whenever he got ready, so he sat still and 
watched, and thus failed to see another prairie 
wolf stealing up behind him. All at once some- 
thing pounced on him and bore him down in the 
sand. At this he screamed outrageously. 
The first coyote now ran up and tried to take 
him away from the coyote that had caught him, 
and a fierce wolf fight at once took place. ‘They 
snapped and snarled and whirled around and 
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