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the chasers. The Coyote did as before. The 

 Greyhounds declined to be party to any attack 

 on such a mild and friendly acquaintance. But 

 the Bull-terrier, who came puffing and panting 

 on the scene three minutes later, had no such 

 scruples. He was not so tall, but he was heavier 

 than the Coyote, and, seizing her by her wool- 

 protected neck, he shook her till, in a surpris- 

 ingly short time, she lay limp and lifeless, at 

 which all the men seemed pleased, and con- 

 gratulated the Terrier, while the Greyhounds 

 pottered around in restless perplexity. 



A stranger in the party, a newly arrived Eng- 

 lishman, asked if he might have the brush, — 

 the tail, he explained, — and on being told to 

 help himself, he picked up the victim by the 

 tail, and with one awkward chop of his knife 

 he cut it off at the middle, and the Coyote 

 dropped, but gave a shrill yelp of pain. She 

 was not dead, only playing possum, and now 

 she leaped up and vanished into a near-by 

 _■£ ^ thicket of cactus and sage. 



^\ID With Greyhounds a running animal is the 



j>. , Q^ signal for a run, so the two long-legged Dogs 



'*$&' " ' .;.-., and the white, broad-chested Dog dashed after 





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