Tito 



them in practice, just as a man in training carries 

 weights. Coyotes have, in common with Dogs 

 and Wolves, the habit of calling at certain 

 stations along their line of travel, to leave a 

 record of their visit. These stations may be a 

 stone, a tree, a post, or an old Buffalo-skull, and 

 the Coyote calling there can learn, by the odor 

 and track of the last comer, just who the caller 

 was, whence he came, and whither he went. 

 The whole country is marked out by these in- 

 telligence depots. Now it often happens that 

 a Coyote that has not much else to do will carry 

 a dry bone or some other useless object in its 

 mouth, but sighting the signal-post, will go to- 

 ward it to get the news, lay down the bone, 

 and afterward forget to take it along, so that 

 the signal-posts in time become further marked 

 with a curious collection of odds and ends. 



This singular habit was the cause of a dis- 

 aster to the Chimney-pot Wolf-hounds, and a 

 corresponding advantage to the Coyotes in the 

 war. Jake had laid a line of poison baits on 

 the western bluffs. Tito knew what they were, 

 and spurned them as usual ; but finding more 

 later, she gathered up three or four and crossed 



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