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on the contrary, the dog is apt to quit when he no longer 

 has the quarry in view. 



At noon we joined the chuck wagon where it stood 

 drawn up on a slope of the treeless, bushless prairie; and 

 the active round-up cook soon had the meal ready. It 

 was the Four Sixes wagon, the brand burned into the 

 wood of the chuck box. Where does a man take more 

 frank enjoyment in his dinner than at the tail end of a 

 chuck wagon? 



Soon after eating we started again, having changed 

 horses and dogs. I was mounted on a Big D cow pony, 

 while Lambert had a dun-colored horse, hard to hold, 

 but very tough and swift. An hour or so after leaving 

 camp we had a four-mile run after a coyote, which finally 

 got away, for it had so long a start that the dogs were 

 done out by the time they came within fair distance. 

 They stopped at a little prairie pool, some of them lying 

 or standing in it, panting violently; and thus we found 

 them as we came stringing up at a gallop. After they 

 had been well rested we started toward camp ; but we 

 were down in the creek bottom before we saw another 

 coyote. This one again was a long distance ahead, and 

 I did not suppose there was much chance of our catching 

 him; but away all the dogs and all the riders went at 

 the' usual run, and catch him we did, because, as it turned 

 out, the " morning " dogs, which were with the wagon, 

 had spied him first and run him hard, until he was in 

 sight of the " afternoon " dogs, which were with us. I 

 got tangled in a washout, scrambled out, and was gallop- 

 ing along, watching the country in front, when Lambert 



