Tito 



tions. The weakness of the second is the ani- 

 mal's inability freely to exchange ideas by 

 language. The weakness of the third is the 

 danger in acquiring it. But the three together 

 are a strong arch. 



Now, Tito was in a new case. Perhaps never 

 before had a Coyote faced life with unusual 

 advantages in the third kind of knowledge, none 

 at all in the second, and with the first dormant. 

 She travelled rapidly away from the ranchmen, 

 keeping out of sight, and sitting down once in 

 a while to lick her wounded tail-stump. She 

 came at last to a Prairie-dog town. Many of 

 the inhabitants were out, and they barked at 

 the intruder, but all dodged down as soon as 

 she came near. Her instinct taught her to try 

 and catch one, but she ran about in vain for 

 some time, and then gave it up. She would 

 have gone hungry that night but that she found 

 a couple of Mice in the long grass by the river. 

 Her mother had not taught her to hunt, but her 

 instinct did, and the accident that she had an 

 unusual brain made her profit very quickly by 

 her experience. 



In the days that followed she quickly learned 



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