Good Hunting 



The coyote is not at all a formidable 

 beast, and holds its own quite persistently 

 until civilization is well advanced in a 

 country. Coyotes are not dangerous to 

 either man or the larger domestic animals. 

 Lambs, young pigs, hens, and cats often 

 become their prey, and if very hungry 

 several of them will combine to attack a 

 young calf. In consequence, farmers and 

 ranchers kill them whenever the chance 

 offers ; but they do not do damage which 

 is even appreciable when compared with 

 the ravages of their grim big brother, the 

 gray wolf, which in many sections of the 

 West is a veritable scourge of the stock- 

 men. 



The big wolves shrink back before the 

 growth of the thickly settled districts, 

 and in the Eastern States they often tend 

 to disappear even from districts that are 

 uninhabited, save by a few wilderness 

 hunters. They have thus disappeared 

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