

Tito 



There were yet other rude experiences in 

 store for the captive. 



Poisoning Wolves was a topic of daily talk at 

 the Ranch, so it was not surprising that Lincoln 

 should privately experiment on Coyotito. The 

 deadly strychnine was too well guarded to be 

 available. So Lincoln hid some Rough on Rats 

 in a piece of meat, threw it to the captive, and 

 sat by to watch, as blithe and conscience-clear 

 as any professor of chemistry trying a new 

 combination. 



Tito smelled the meat — everything had to be 

 passed on by her nose. Her nose was in doubt. 

 There was a good smell of meat, a familiar but 

 unpleasant smell of human hands, and a strange 

 new odor, but not the odor of the trap ; so she 

 bolted the morsel. Within a few minutes she 

 began to have fearful pains in her stomach, fol- 

 lowed by cramps. Now in all the Wolf tribe 

 there is the instinctive habit to throw up anything 

 that disagrees with them, and after a minute or 

 two of suffering the Coyote sought relief in this 

 way ; and to make it doubly sure she hastily 

 gobbled some blades of grass, and in less than 

 an hour was quite well again. 



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