Tito 



. ' '? ° V to take up that of a She-wolf, but when they do 



v! As>A V f> \ overtake her, they, for some sentimental reason, 



^ ■&■ /, ^~ invariably let her go in peace. In August and 



\ ^ '\\ ,,' September the young Coyotes and Wolves are 



\V)/ just beginning to run alone, and they are then 



easily trapped and poisoned. A month or so 



later the survivors have learned how to take 



care of themselves, but in the early summer the 



wolver knows that there are dens full of little 



ones all through the hills. Each den has from 



five to fifteen pups, and the only difficulty is to 



know the whereabouts of these family homes. 



One way of finding the dens is to watch from 

 some tall butte for a Coyote carrying food to 

 its brood. As this kind of wolving involved 

 much lying still, it suited Jake very well. So, 

 equipped with a Broad-arrow Horse and the 

 boss's field-glasses, he put in week after week 

 at den-hunting — that is, lying asleep in some 

 possible lookout, with an occasional glance over 

 the country when it seemed easier to do that 

 than to lie still. 



The Coyotes had learned to avoid the open. 

 They generally went homeward along the shel- 

 tered hollows ; but this was not always possible, 



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