94 The Hunting Field With Horse and Hound 



ing himself alone with the coyote, Mr. Petrie put spurs to liis 

 horse, cut across the circle the coyote was making, and while 

 running at full speed he dropped him with a second shot from 

 his revolver. 



"That gun play of yours," said the old cattleman, as Mr. 

 Petrie proceeded to tie the dead coyote to the back of his saddle, 

 "that gun play of yours has lost but little by coming to town ; 

 we all take off our hats." And so we did, and swung them too 

 with a cheer. Was ever a compliment more neatly jjut? As 

 usual it left nothing more to say. 



So far as the events of the second day went, there was little 

 to redeem the day before. Three coyotes were started, with but 

 one score, but the way this was done puts to shade all former 

 kills, and I doubt if a similar experience has ever been 

 recorded. 



There was one fruitless run in the morning, and none after 

 lunch until we were nearly home, when we came upon five or 

 six coyotes in the neighbourhood of a carcass that was evidently 

 of recent death, probably a sickly animal that the coyotes had 

 pulled down. JNIr. Petrie was riding with the proprietor on 

 the wagon leading his horse. His cattleman had gone off by 

 himself to inspect a herd of steers. Taking in the situation at 

 a glance Mr. Petrie says to the writer "as your horse seems to 

 have had about enough, take mine and when we get as near 

 to the coyotes as possible, lead on the chase." ]Mr. Petrie is 

 a good six feet and his stirrup leathers too long for the writer 

 by as many inches. Instead of buckles by which to shorten 

 them, these stirrup leathers were laced with leather strings. 

 The writer managed to get one unlaced and shortened while 

 riding slowly on towards the coyotes, but before he had time 

 to shorten the other Mr. Petrie shouted "Hounds.'' There was 

 no waiting for adjustment of stirrup leathers. Out piled the 

 hounds, and away we went. Hounds came on to equal terms 

 with the rider, but they gave up the game in the first three- 



