many are secured by trap and gun. The Indicin 

 who can hunt the black fox successfully, is looked 

 up to as a great man by his people. The charac- 

 ter of our country in the Northwestern mountains is 

 rolling and sparsely timbered. The difficulty is not 

 in seeing foxes, but in seeing them before they see 

 you, and approaching within range. 



Indians as a class are poor marksmen, but some 

 of these fox hunters become very good shots. If 

 the hunter is well concealed, he can with favorable 

 conditions, sometimes call a fox by imitating the 

 squeak of a rodent. 



Calling, by imitating the squeak of a field mouse, 

 can be successfully practiced on owls as well as foxes. 



The coyote, or prairie-wolf, is another animal 

 that has withstood the advance of civilization. 

 Traps, poison and guns have been tried, and yet 

 the weird call of this prairie-wolf still echoes among 

 the Westem foot-hills. 



The coyote is always found in fairly open 

 country, and is a most interesting animal to hunt. 

 Under ordinary conditions they are seldom killed with 

 the rifle ; but after heavy snows, and when they are 

 overfed, they sometimes fall a prey to the still-hunter. 



Besides holding his own on the Western plains, 

 the coyote has enlarged his range. In Northern 

 British Columbia, and the far West, they are found, 

 where ten years ago they were unknown. Most of 

 the shots in wolf hunting are at long range, 

 and of course if the first is a miss, the 

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