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short rope, and the Horse led him on and on, 

 until at last they were well on the homeward 

 trail. 



Now Jake was afoot anyhow, so seeing no 

 better plan, he set out to follow that Horse 

 right back to the Ranch. 



But when about seven miles were covered 

 Jake succeeded in catching him. He rigged 

 up a rough jdquima with the rope and rode 

 barebacked in fifteen minutes over the three 

 miles that lay between him and the Sheep- 

 ranch, giving vent all the way to his pent-up 

 feelings in cruel abuse of that Horse. Of 

 course it did not do any good, and he knew that, 

 but he considered it was heaps of satisfaction. 



Here Jake got a meal and borrowed a sad- 

 dle and a mongrel Hound that could run a 

 trail, and returned late in the afternoon to finish 

 his den-hunt. Had he known it, he now could 

 have found it without the aid of the cur, for it 

 was really close at hand when he took up the 

 feather-trail where last he had left it. Within 

 one hundred yards he rose to the top of the 

 little ridge ; then just over it, almost face to 

 face, he came on a Coyote, carrying in its 



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