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she would have been stretched out — not a 

 doubt of it. But on a sudden she stopped, 

 turned, and walked toward the Dogs with her 

 tail serenely waving in the air and a friendly 

 cock to her ears. Greyhounds are peculiar 

 Dogs. Anything that runs away, they are going 

 to catch and kill if they can. Anything that is 

 calmly facing them becomes at once a non- 

 combatant. They bounded over and past the 

 Coyote before they could curb their own im- 

 petuosity, and returned completely nonplussed. 

 Possibly they recognized the Coyote of the 

 house-yard as she stood there wagging her tail. 

 The ranchmen were nonplussed too. Every 

 one was utterly taken aback, had a sense of 

 failure, and the real victor in the situation was 

 felt to be the audacious little Coyote. 



The Greyhounds refused to attack an animal 

 that wagged its tail and would not run ; and 

 the men, on seeing that the Coyote could walk 

 far enough away to avoid being caught by hand, 

 took their ropes (lassoes), and soon made her a 

 prisoner once more. 



The next day they decided to try again, but 

 this time they added the white Bull-terrier to 



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