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some five or six carcasses by Diamond Springs; " / /f ^^.^w^ 



or another, it was to the effect that I had seen /zz^&^ty^Jgy 



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say I had; one day it was, "Yes, I came on { / ^3f 



a small ' bunch ' running on the Malpai Mesa ; 

 or again, " No, but Juan Meira saw about 

 twenty, freshly killed, on the Cedra Monte 

 two days ago." 



At length the wolf traps arrived, and with 

 two men I worked a whole week to get them 

 properly set out. We spared no labor or pains, 

 I adopted every device I could think of that 

 might help to insure success. The second day 

 after the traps arrived, I rode around to inspect, 

 and soon came upon Lobo's trail running from 

 trap to trap. In the dust I could read the 

 whole story of his doings that night. He had 

 trotted along in the darkness, and although the 

 traps were so carefully concealed, he had in- 

 stantly detected the first one. Stopping the 

 onward march of the pack, he had cautiously 

 scratched around it until he had disclosed the 

 trap, the chain, and the log, then left them 

 wholly exposed to view -with the trap still un- 

 sprung, and passing on he treated over a dozen 

 traps in the same fashion. Very soon I noticed 



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