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the Coyote. But right across their path, by 

 happy chance, there flashed a brown streak 

 ridden by a snowy powder-puff, the visible but 

 evanescent sign for Cottontail Rabbit. The 

 Coyote was not in sight now. The Rabbit 

 was, so the Greyhounds dashed after the Cot- 

 tontail, who took advantage of a Prairie-dog's 

 hole to seek safety in the bosom of Mother 

 Earth, and the Coyote made good her escape. 



She had been a good deal jarred by the rude 

 treatment of the Terrier, and her mutilated tail 

 gave her some pain. But otherwise she was 

 all right, and she loped lightly away, keeping 

 out of sight in the hollows, and so escaped 

 among the fantastic buttes of the Badlands, to 

 be eventually the founder of a new life among 

 the Coyotes of the Little Missouri. 



Moses was preserved by the Egyptians till he 

 had outlived the dangerous period, and learned 

 from them wisdom enough to be the savior of 

 his people against those same Egyptians. So 

 the bobtailed Coyote was not only saved by 

 man and carried over the dangerous period of 

 puppyhood : she was also unwittingly taught by 

 him how to baffle the traps, poisons, lassos, 



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