Tito 



not always close together, often were miles 

 apart during the day, but toward night one or 

 the other would get on some high, open place 

 and sing the loud 



Yap-yap-yap-yow- wow-wow -wow-wow, 



and they would forgather for some foray on 

 hand. 



The physical advantages were with Saddle- 

 back, but the greater cunning was Tito's, so 

 that she in time became the leader. Before a 

 month a third Coyote had appeared on the 

 scene and become also a member of this loose- 

 bound fraternity, and later two more appeared. 

 Nothing succeeds like success. The little bob- 

 tailed Coyote had had rare advantages of train- 

 ing just where the others were lacking: she 

 knew the devices of man. She could not tell 

 about these in words, but she could by the aid 

 of a few signs and a great deal of example. It 

 soon became evident that her methods of hunt- 

 ing were successful, whereas, when they went 

 without her, they often had hard luck. A man 

 at Boxelder Ranch had twenty Sheep. The 

 rules of the county did not allow any one to 



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