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CHAPTER VI 



A PECCARY HUNT ON THE NUECES 



Trip in Southern Texas A Ranch on the Frio Rop 

 ing Cattle Extermination of the Peccary Odd Habits 

 Occasionally Attacks Unprovoked We Drive South 

 to the Nueces Flower Prairies Semi-tropical Land 

 scape Hunting on Horseback Half-blood Hounds 

 Find a Small Band of Peccaries Kill Two How They 

 Act When at Bay Their Occasional Freaks . . . .162 



CHAPTER VII 



HUNTING WITH HOUNDS 



31d-time Hunters Rarely Used Dogs The Packs of the 

 Southern Planters Coursing in the West Hunting 

 with Greyhounds Near My Ranch Jack-rabbits, 

 Foxes, Coyotes, Antelopes, and Deer An Original 

 Sportsman of the Prairies Colonel Williams Grey 

 hounds Riding on the Plains Cross-country Riding 

 Fox-hunting at Geneseo A Day with Mr. Wads- 

 worth s Hounds The Meadowbrook Drag Hounds 

 High Jumping A Meet at Sagamore Hill Fox 

 hunting and Fetichism Prejudices of Sportsmen, 

 Foreign and Native Different Styles of Riding . .179 



CHAPTER VIII 



WOLVES AND WOLF-HOUNDS 



The Wolf Contrasted with Coyote Variations in Color 

 Former Abundance The Riddle of Its Extermina 

 tion Inexplicable Differences in Habits Between 

 Closely Related Species Size of Wolf Animals 

 Upon Which It Preys Attacking Cattle; Horses; 

 Other Animals; Foxes, Dogs, and Even Coyotes 

 Runs Down Deer and Antelope Coyotes Catch Jack- 

 rabbits Wolves Around Camp A Wolf Shot Wolf- 

 Hunting with Hounds An Overmatch for Most Dogs 

 Decimating a Pack Coursing Wolves with Grey- 

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