around and tore up the sand all about. The 
rabbit, although injured, was not dead; and, 
finding himself free, he hopped away. 
It so happened that still another coyote was 
passing and saw all this. He at once gave chase 
to the injured rabbit and, picking him up in his 
mouth, ran far away. The quail family did not 
stay to watch the finish of the fight, or they 
might have seen Coyote Number One, after 
he had driven off the other, hunt in vain among 
the cactus and creosote bushes for the rabbit, 
whose trail, of course, had ended where he was 
picked up. 
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the size of a small hen. It has long, ui x 
stout legs and runs so fast aK by 
and so seldom flies that ¥ : 4 i 
many people call it the {f/ & Ay y We 
roadrunner. It travels ‘ Rhy Sa SRG y 
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eating such insects ee ae Ee 
and small animals 
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