Tito 



the snow the tale of the night. The first cry 

 of the Coyotes was to find out if all the Dogs 

 were loose ; then, having found that only one 

 was free, they laid a plan. Five Coyotes hid 

 along the side of the trail ; one went forward 

 and called till it had decoyed the rash Terrier, 

 and then led him right into the ambush. What 

 chance had he with six? They tore him limb 

 from limb, and devoured him, too, at the very 

 spot where once he had worried Coyotito. And 

 next morning, when the men came, they saw by 

 the signs that the whole thing had been planned, 

 and that the leader whose cunning had made it 

 a success was a little Bobtailed Coyote. 



The men were angry, and Lincoln was furi- 

 ous ; but Jake remarked : " Well, I guess that 

 Bobtail came back and got even with that 

 Terrier." 



VI 



When spring was near, the annual love-season 

 of the Coyotes came on. Saddleback and Tito 

 had been together merely as companions all 

 winter, but now a new feeling was born. There 

 was not much courting. Saddleback simply 



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