Contents 



CHAPTER VI 



A PECCARY HUNT ON THE NUECES 



A 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 TwoHow They 

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



CHAPTER VII 



HUNTING WITH HOUNDS 



Old-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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