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the Little Missouri toward the ranch-house. 

 This she circled at a safe distance ; but when 

 something made the pack of Dogs break out 

 into clamor, Tito dropped the baits, and next 

 day, when the Dogs were taken out for exercise, 

 they found and devoured these scraps of meat, 

 so that in ten minutes there were four hundred 

 dollars' worth of Greyhounds lying dead. This 

 led to an edict against poisoning in that dis- 

 trict, and thus was a great boon to the Coyotes. 

 Tito quickly learned that not only each kind 

 of game must be hunted in a special way, but 

 different ones of each kind may require quite 

 different treatment. The Prairie-dog with the 

 -outlying den was really an easy prey, but the 

 town was quite compact now that he was gone. 

 Near the centre of it was a fine, big, fat Prairie- 

 dog, a perfect alderman, that she had made 

 several vain attempts to capture. On one oc- 

 casion she had crawled almost within leaping 

 distance, when the angry bizz of a Rattlesnake 

 just ahead warned her that she was in danger. 

 Not that the Rattler cared anything about the 

 Prairie-dog, but he did not wish to be disturbed ; 

 and Tito, who had an instinctive fear of the 



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