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spot where the younger dog stood. As he drew alongside the float, he 

 made no effort to get aboard. The two began to bark at each other, to 

 hold an animated conversation in the dog tongue, as it were. The older 

 dog, as he floated by the side of the landing, barked encouragement to 

 the more timid animal, and apparently was urging the latter to jump 

 into the water. This barking duet lasted some minutes, and the young 

 dog seemingly convinced by his companion's assurance, grew bold, and 

 suddenly bounded into the river. The first dog gave a delighted yelp, 

 and both turning their noses toward Kentuck}^ began to swim straight 

 across, side by side. Both continued to bark until they reached the 

 shore, and could be heard on both sides of the river. The people on 

 the ferry on the Kentucky shore saw the strange race, and, with the 

 people on this side and on the bridge, watched it to the end. The dogs 

 landed opposite the barracks where they were awaited by their owaer 

 who, with several other gentlemen, had hurridly walked down the bank. 

 There was no limit to the delight of the two animals as they rushed 

 up to their master. The river at that point is nearly half a mile wide. 

 The action of the dogs seeme*d to indicate that they had a language of 

 their own, and the paternal manifestations of the older brute were most 

 interesting to see. " (Cincinnati Enquirer, Oct., '89.) 



The people of Assam tell the following stories of the wild dogs of that 

 country which hunt in packs. When a pack goes out to hunt, an old 

 dog goes in front andsearches for fresh scent of a deer, and ascertains 

 approximately the locality of the game. He then returns to the pack, 

 and disposes it around the game in a circle a mile in diameter. He then 

 goes in and drives the deer out toward the circumference of the ring. It 

 is here intercepted by the other dogs, and so driven from side to side 

 of the ring which is constantly contracted until the deer is surprised 

 and baffled in all directions, and finally exhausted and captured by his 

 wily antagonists, whose combined wit is thus more than a match for the 

 superior activities of the deer. 



The Virginia (Nevada) Chronicle is responsible for the following 

 story of coyotes, the name given the small prairie wolves common in all 

 our new states in the west : 



1 < Residents in the vicinity of the Philadelphia brewery have been 

 robbed of over 500 chickens in the past few weeks, and until recently 

 were unable to ascertain the identity of the thieves. A watch was set 

 and it was discovered that they were coj^otes. The full-grown animals 

 could not get into the chicken-houses, but detailed their cubs to crawl 

 in through the holes left for chickens to enter. Once inside, the cubs 

 killed the chickens and pushed them through the holes to the full grown 

 coyotes waiting on the outside, who bore them away to their rendezvous 

 in the adjacent hills and ravines in that vicinity, which are swarming 

 with these animals, and at night the air is vocal with their howls, the 

 treble cries of the cubs forming a strange accompaniment to the deep 

 bass of the older contingent. " 



