Tito 



Snake, was forced to abandon the hunt. The 

 open stalk proved an utter failure with the Al- 

 derman, for the situation of his den made every 

 Dog in the town his sentinel ; but he was too 

 good to lose, and Tito waited until circum- 

 stances made a new plan. 



All Coyotes have a trick of watching from a 

 high lookout whatever passes along the roads. 

 After it has passed they go down and examine 

 its track. Tito had this habit, except that she 

 was always careful to keep out of sight herself. 



One day a wagon passed from the town to 

 the southward. Tito lay low and watched it. 

 Something dropped on the road. When the 

 wagon was out of sight Tito sneaked down, 

 first to smell the trail as a matter of habit, 

 second to see what it was that had dropped. 

 The object was really an apple, but Tito saw 

 only an unattractive round green thing like a 

 cactus-leaf without spines, and of a peculiar 

 smell. She snuffed it, spurned it, and was about 

 to pass on ; but the sun shone on it so brightly, 

 and it rolled so curiously when she pawed, that 

 she picked it up in a mechanical way and trotted 

 back over the rise, where she found herself at 



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