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to have sufficient 

 nose to enable it to 

 follow a coyote, and 

 the speed to overtake 

 it also. A good pack 

 of fast fox- hounds 

 will drive it at a rat- 

 tling pace, however, 

 and, if the ground 

 is open, may kill it 

 the wolf. inside an hour. I 



have known it to 

 lead them for twenty or more miles without a check on 

 broken, hilly ground, and escape in a chasm, yet I have 

 frequently seen it captured in half an hour; but then the 

 dogs were fast indeed, and got off close after it. I have 

 seen several killed in a day by a small pack, but in such 

 cases they were in unusual numbers, and rose up almost 

 under the noses of the dogs. I have seen a small pack of 

 seventeen or eighteen couples of coyotes rise out of bur- 

 rows in the ground, apparently at once, and scud about in 



