WOLF-COURSING 101 



Furthermore there was Captain McDonald of the Texas 

 Rangers, a game and true man, whose name was one of 

 terror to outlaws and violent criminals of all kinds ; and 

 finally there was Quanah Parker, the Comanche chief, 

 in his youth a bitter foe of the whites, now painfully 

 teaching his people to travel the white man's stony road. 



We drove out some twenty miles to where camp was 

 pitched in a bend of Deep Red Creek, which empties 

 into the Red River of the South. Cottonwood, elm, and 

 pecans formed a belt of timber along the creek; we had 

 good water, the tents were pitched on short, thick grass, 

 and everything was in perfect order. The fare was de- 

 licious. Altogether it was an ideal camp, and the days 

 we passed there were also ideal. Cardinals and mocking- 

 birds the most individual and delightful of all birds in 

 voice and manner sang in the woods ; and the beautiful, 

 many-tinted fork-tailed fly-catchers were to be seen now 

 and then, perched in trees or soaring in curious zigzags, 

 chattering loudly. 



In chasing the coyote only greyhounds are used, and 

 half a dozen different sets of these had been brought to 

 camp. Those of Wagner, the " Big D " dogs, as his cow- 

 punchers called them, were handled by Bony Moore, 

 who, with Tom Burnett, the son of our host Burke Bur- 

 nett, took the lead in feats of daring horsemanship, even 

 in that field of daring horsemen. Bevins- had brought 

 both greyhounds and rough-haired staghoiihds from his 1 

 Texas ranch. So had Cecil Lyon, andHhdtigb His' aogsr 

 had chiefly been used in coursing the black-tailed Texas 

 jack-rabbit, they took naturally to the coyote chases. 



